Top 67 Rushdoony Quotes
#1. According to Rushdoony, the conditions of the Irish transport were as bad or worse than what we know of slave ships, and the condition of Irish immigrants on arrival was "far worse than that of slaves:
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#2. But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality ... Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.
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#3. Our increasingly humanistic laws, courts and legislators are giving us a new morality. They tell us, as they strike down laws resting upon biblical foundations, that morality cannot be legislated, but what they offer is not only legislated morality, but salvation by law.
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#4. Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
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#5. The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property.
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#6. Godly men are not revolutionists: the Lord's way is regeneration, not revolution.
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#7. Segregation or separation is thus a basic principle of Biblical Law with respect to religion and morality. Every attempt to destroy this principle is an effort to reduce society to its lowest common denominator.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
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#10. [T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.
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#11. It is the fear of God which gives us the confidence to face men and their evil and to be confident of ultimate victory.
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#12. Before the rise of Deism, Calvin condemned the pragmatic deism which relegated God to heaven and left the government of the world to men.
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#14. 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.
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#15. Because the world is God's creation and law order, it is the truth which in time shall prevail and triumph.
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#16. 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.
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#18. The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#21. The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.
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#22. The purpose of Christian education is not academic: it is religious and practical.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. The Bible is God's law-word which must govern every sphere of life and thought.
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#26. Freedom in the Biblical sense is always at a price; it is a costly gift, and it requires great things of us.
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#27. The goal is the developed Kingdom of God, the New Jerusalem, a world order under God's law.
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#28. Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy,
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#29. If God be denied, then His sovereignty and infallibility accrue to other agencies.
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#30. History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.
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#33. We may disagree with the morality of a law, but we cannot deny the moral concern of a law.
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#34. Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men
and fewer laws.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.
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#37. Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies,
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#38. 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.
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#40. 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.
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#41. It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.
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#42. Children are no longer seen by many people as a blessing from God but as extensions of personal goals and pride. As a result, the family under humanism is in a state of crisis.
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#43. Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
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#45. Law for the Christian is thus absolute, final, and an aspect of God's creation and a manifestation of His nature. In terms of this, the Christian can hold that right is right, and wrong is wrong, that good and evil are unchanging moral categories rather then relative terms.
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#46. God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.
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#47. We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God's Word is the test.
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#49. God has a plan for the conquest of all things by His covenant people. That plan is His law. It leaves no area of life and activity untouched, and it predestines victory. To deny the law is to deny God and His plan for victory.
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#50. 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.
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#51. The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
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#52. All religions segregate also ... every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
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#53. But, while a man can be restrained by strict law and order, he cannot be changed by law; he cannot be saved by law. Man can only be saved by the grace of God through Jesus Christ.
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#54. 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.
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#56. [A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech.
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#57. All men are NOT created equal before God; the facts of heaven and hell, election and reprobation make clear that they are not equal. Moreover, an employer has aproperty rights to prefer whom he will in terms of "color" creed, race or national origin.
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#58. The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
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#59. 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.
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#60. Men cannot give a meaning to history that they themselves lack, nor can they honor a past which indicts them for their present failures.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. Our Lord tells us that the Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27): it is a witness to our creatureliness, to the fact that we can rest because the government of all things is not on our shoulders, and our Lord is King over all creation.
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#65. A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.
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#66. 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 ...
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#67. In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.
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