Quotes from R.J. Rushdoony

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 are very much in need now of Christian pioneers. This means a people who are zealous to grow and to exercise dominion in Christ.

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.

Socialism is politicized envy.

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

Godly men are not revolutionists: the Lord's way is regeneration, not revolution.

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.

The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness