"liberty does not mean license. It is a common charge of legalists that to teach grace without the restraint of the law means license to sin. This charge is untrue. To teach grace with restraint of the law is bondage. To teach grace is to teach a full and complete dependence upon God to provide according to His infinite love all that is needed by the one who places his trust in Him. The life of such a one must be a God-directed life. And a God-directed life is not one of carelessness and license. There is no indifference to sin in such a life. Only under grace can such a life be lived. But the one who imposes the law upon a believer, whether himself or another, by that very act denies the need of dependence upon God and thereby commits sin." J.F. Strombeck
"If we engage in particular rituals and keep certain rules, we always know where we stand. If we know what we can do that will make us more acceptable in God's eyes than a person who doesn't do them, we by doing them, can advance our status. Such a religion puts us in control. We no longer live by faith, trusting in God to accept us in mercy. We no longer have to live in love toward our neighbor, trusting, often against all appearances, that the neighbor is God's child. What we are being offered is a security system in which we do not have to live by faith, will not have to trust in God, but can trust instead in ourselves." Eugene Peterson