R.J. Rushdoony Quotes

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• The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and deserves the DEATH PENALTY. ADULTERY…
• Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy,
• The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
• One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and…
• Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men…
• We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.
• The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness
• Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that…
• There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.
• Man lives in time but his life transcends time.
• Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
• The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of…
• In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.
• Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
• The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared…
• To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful…
• Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
• Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . . . The law…
• The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.
• The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres…

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