“The excellency of the law more clearly appears in the gospel than in the doctrine of the law itself... Surely God set a high price on His law, that He would not save any soul that had broken it, other than by His Son who must come to fulfill it.Therefore, Christians must learn to prize the law of God.”

“God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.”

“We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.”

“When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.”

“It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.”

“Ultimately, we must turn to the God who is both the One and the Many for the standard of His law. He created to live both as individuals and as corporate units; and His law perfectly balances the liberties of the many with the power of the one political unit.”

“Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?”