Law, Rules, Discipline
Moses and the Ten Commandments of the Law, circa 1896-1902, by James Tissot, gouache on board, at the Jewish Museum of New York.
Discipline is the quality of the disciple, it allows one to receive teaching and put it into practice. Knowing the Law of the Ten Commandments given by God at Sinai is not enough. One must practice it to sow Fruits of eternal life.
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
- I have not come to change, but to fulfill the Law: if the fear of punishment can hold back three times out of ten, the certainty of reward propels you seven times out of ten.[1]
- Do you not know that nothing is isolated from all that happens and exists in creation, but that everything follows an eternal law of dependencies and consequences whereby one person's action has very extensive natural and supernatural repercussions.[2]
- How is the Kingdom of God founded in the world and in the Hearts? By returning to the Mosaic Law and by exact knowledge if one is ignorant of it, and especially by the total application of the Law to oneself, in every event and at every moment of life.[5]
- "Woe to you, doctors of the Law, for you load people with burdens they cannot bear, by turning the punishment of the paternal Decalogue given by the Most High to his People into a punishment."[6]
- Deuteronomy prescribed laws of humanity, because at that time men had a childish spirituality, they were coarse, half-savage.[7]
- When I came, I perfected the Mosaic rules and opened wider horizons. The letter is no longer "everything". It is the Spirit that has become "everything".[8]
- Return and remain in the Discipline, which is centuries old. From Moses to the Christ, from Christ to you, from you to the last day, there is only that, and no other.[9]
- In the Mosaic Law, and consequently divine, in the pre-Mosaic Law, which is only moral, or from heavenly inspiration celestial, is it said by chance that someone who did not belong to Israel could not enter it to be part of it?[10]
- Do not worry about knowing many laws. They will come to bring my Law into the world. But as long as they have not come, have as Law the few sentences that follow in which all my Law of Salvation is summarized: Love God with all your Heart. Love the authorities, the parents, the friends, the servants, the people, and even the Enemies, as you love yourselves.[11]
In fundamental Christian texts
In the Bible
He who loves others has thereby fulfilled the law. Indeed, the precept: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and all the others are summed up in this formula: You shall love your Neighbor as yourself. Charity does no harm to the Neighbor. Therefore, the perfect fulfillment of the Law is love.[13]