Law Offence

Famous quotes containing the words law and/or offence:

    “The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic law of chromatics. Don’t look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.”
    —Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 16:23.

    Said to Peter, who had suggested that Jesus not go into Jerusalem to meet his fate.