Dietrich Bonhoeffer worded it this way: "It is Jesus himself who comes between the disciples and the law, not the law which comes between Jesus and the disciples."
Source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship 123 (R.H. Fuller trans., New York: Touchstone, 1995). From a sermon by Joe La Rue, "Jesus: The Fulfillment of the Old Testament Law for Us" 2/19/2009