 God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction. Author: Origen |
| Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice. Author: Origen |
The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.
- P.T. Forsyth Author: Assorted Authors |
| Laws were made to restrain and punish the wicked; the wise and good do not need them as a guide, but only as a shield against rapine and oppression; they can live civilly and orderly, though there were no law in the world. Author: Owen Feltham |
| To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves that others may be decorated with their feathers. Author: Owen Feltham |
Ravenous birds and the standards of the Roman army, ready to devour a people, reprobated and given up, as a dead carcass, by Providence.
- Philip Skelton Author: Assorted Authors |
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| Lord, be pleased to shake my clay cottage before Thou throwest it down. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| When our Savior drove the sheep and oxen out of the temple, He did not drive them into His own pasture; nor sweep the coin into His own pockets, when He overturned the table of the money-changers. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| Be you never so high, the law is above you. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. Author: Thomas Aquinas |
| Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. Author: Thomas Aquinas |
| And when God comes to reckon with his workmen, the ploughman and the sower shall have his penny, as well as the harvest-man and the reaper. Author: William Gurnall |
