R.J. Rushdoony Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society

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

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

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness

Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.

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

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

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

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

Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.

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.

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.

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.

The goal is the developed Kingdom of god, the New Jerusalem, a world order under god's law.

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.

Man lives in time but his life transcends time.

All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

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

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.

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

Socialism is politicized envy.

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.

[T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

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

Men cannot give a meaning to history that they themselves lack, nor can they honor a past which indicts them for their present failures.