R.J. Rushdoony famous quotes

To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Christian #Children #Mean

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.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Character #Government #Eggs

It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In learning, no act of teaching in any school or university compares to the routine task of mothers in teaching a babe who speaks no language the mother tongue in so short a time. No other task in education is equal to this. The moral training of the children, the discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the children which surpasses all other. The family is the first and basic school of man.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Mother #Children #Teaching

In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Age #Sin #Problem

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.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Powerful #Believe #Men

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Law #Culture #Lawyer

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Minorities #Majority #Dedicated

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 heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#War #Creativity #Opportunity

The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power. . . Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Song #Rights #Goal

It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the murderer's life also demand the “right” to abortion. Usually, the same picketers that carry a sign one day, “Abolish Capital Punishment,” also carry “Legalize Abortion” another day. When this is called to their attention, their answer is, “There is no contradiction involved.” They are right: the thesis is “condemn the innocent and free the guilty.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Baby #Men #Abortion

Concerning the press and politicians, the hatred for all such evangelical groups is not because of their real or fancied blunders but because they have reintroduced biblical morality into politics.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Christian #Religious #Real

A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Real #Men

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Godly #Men #Law

The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Selfishness #Needs #Lord

The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Mud #Timbuktu #University

Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . . . The law is humane and also unsentimental. It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Biblical #Law #People

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.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Christian #Religious #Biblical

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 in terms of His law.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Exercise #Law #Government

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Law #Religion #Death Penalty

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Government #Religion #Alternatives

All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#School #Views #Undisciplined

The goal is the developed Kingdom of God, the New Jerusalem, a world order under God's law.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Law #Order #Goal

In the name of equal rights, women are being stripped of the protections of the family and given no place except the perverse competition of a sexual market in which increasingly shock, deviation, and aggressiveness command a premium . . .
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Rights #Names #Competition

Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Great Love #Democracy #Coward

People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience and throws light on dark corners in their lives which they prefer to keep dark.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Dark #Light #People

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 what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Successful #Caring #Government

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 state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Mean #Law #Justice

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 who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Biblical #Reality #Men

We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Feelings #Tests #Use

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 morality.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Law #Two #Today

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy,
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Spiritual #Religion #Aristocracy

Man lives in time but his life transcends time.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Men #End Times

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 is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to DEATH. HOMOSEXUALITY is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of DEATH.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Abortion #Religion #Atheism

The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Becoming #Sin #Results

Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Kings #Life Is #Christ

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Men #Law #Essentials

Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Men #Law #Saving

Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies,
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Enemy #Democracy #Christianity