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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

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