Justice & Law Quote by Thomas Ken

Ken’s line lands like a steady tolling bell: morning and evening, again and again, the same sacrificial rhythm. As a late-17th-century Anglican clergyman, he’s not offering a quirky devotional flourish; he’s training attention. The “Remember” is doing heavy work. It assumes spiritual amnesia as the default human condition and frames religious life as a disciplined recovery of first principles, not a burst of inspiration.

The sentence reaches back to Levitical sacrifice - the daily lamb offerings that kept Israel’s covenantal relationship with God materially, almost bureaucratically, “in force.” Ken invokes “under the Law” to situate that old system as God-ordained, not primitive superstition, while also setting up the Christian reading that shadows it: the Lamb as a type pointing to Christ. The subtext is corrective and pastoral: your private piety is not self-authored; it is meant to be calibrated by a schedule God himself established.

It also quietly defends liturgical regularity against the era’s suspicion of “mere form.” In the long wake of England’s civil wars and confessional friction, Anglicans were often pressured to justify set prayers, fixed times, and ordered worship. Ken’s appeal to God’s own mandated repetition gives that order a theological spine. Habit isn’t the enemy of sincerity here; it’s the mechanism that makes sincerity possible on days when fervor fails. Sacrifice becomes a template for attention: the day begins and ends with an admission of dependence, not with self-confidence.