Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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