We are too inclined to think of law as something merely restrictive... something hemming us in. We sometimes think of law as the opposite of liberty. But that is a false conception.... God does not contradict himself. He did not create man and then, as an afterthought, impose upon him a set of arbitrary, irritating, restrictive rules. He made man free - and then gave him the commandments to keep him free. We cannot break the Ten Commandments. We can only break ourselves against them - or else, by keeping them, rise through them to the fullness of freedom under God.

Cecil B. De Mille, Quoted by Richard L. Evans, Conference Report, Oct. 1959, 127 as quoted in Tad R. Callister, The Infinite Atonement. 2000. p.259