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Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Because the world is God's creation and law order, it is the truth which in time shall prevail and triumph.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
We are very much in need now of Christian pioneers. This means a people who are zealous to grow and to exercise dominion in Christ.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
— R.J. Rushdoony
Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
— R.J. Rushdoony
If God be denied, then His sovereignty and infallibility accrue to other agencies.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
The precondition of giving thanks with sincerity is always humility.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
It is the fear of God which gives us the confidence to face men and their evil and to be confident of ultimate victory.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Problems are a part of life in a fallen world, and they are necessary part of it, necessary to our testing and to our growth.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
The resurrection of the body forbids us to despise the material realm.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
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 God.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
— R.J. Rushdoony
The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.
— R.J. Rushdoony
The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.
— R.J. Rushdoony
Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
The goal is the developed Kingdom of God, the New Jerusalem, a world order under God's law.
— R.J. Rushdoony
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.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
We may disagree with the morality of a law, but we cannot deny the moral concern of a law.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
[T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
We are getting what we paid for, and if we want something else, we are going to have to pay for it, in work, sweat, and sacrifice.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.
— R.J. Rushdoony
The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness
— Rousas John Rushdoony
The purpose of Christian education is not academic: it is religious and practical.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
The Bible is God's law-word which must govern every sphere of life and thought.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Men cannot give a meaning to history that they themselves lack, nor can they honor a past which indicts them for their present failures.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy,
— R.J. Rushdoony
We sin if we do not confront sin as sin.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Godly men are not revolutionists: the Lord's way is regeneration, not revolution.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men
and fewer laws. — R.J. Rushdoony
and fewer laws. — R.J. Rushdoony
The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Before the rise of Deism, Calvin condemned the pragmatic deism which relegated God to heaven and left the government of the world to men.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Man lives in time but his life transcends time.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Freedom in the Biblical sense is always at a price; it is a costly gift, and it requires great things of us.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Our character is revealed under pressure.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Socialism is politicized envy.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies,
— R.J. Rushdoony
We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God's Word is the test.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
All religions segregate also ... every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
— R.J. Rushdoony
It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.
— Rousas John Rushdoony