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For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel: -- Matthew Henry
A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law -- Benjamin Franklin
The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world. -- Harold B. Lee
All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel. -- Jakob Bohme
As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself. -- Rowan Williams
The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician. -- Thomas Boston
When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both. -- Tullian Tchividjian
The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word. -- Tullian Tchividjian
The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted. -- Martin Luther
Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart. -- J. I. Packer
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel. -- Josh Billings
The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all. -- Tullian Tchividjian
They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel. -- Charles Spurgeon
I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. -- Charles Spurgeon
The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts. -- John Gresham Machen
The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived. -- Tullian Tchividjian
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin. -- Martin Luther
The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair -- Charles Spurgeon
The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction. -- Patrick Hamilton
This is that law of the Gospel; whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them. -- Thomas Hobbes
What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within. -- Catherine Booth
I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse. -- Northrop Frye
Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry. -- Martin Luther
The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it. -- Charles Spurgeon
If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus' gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace. -- Philip Yancey
Run, John, and work, the law commands,Yet give me neither feet nor hand.Much better new the Gospel brings:It bids me fly and gives me winds. -- John Berridge
To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings. -- John Bunyan

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