Quotes from Rousas John Rushdoony

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.

People who expect the world to end very soon, and are planning on being raptured out of it, are not likely to be concerned about dominion over the earth, nor the application of God's law to the whole of life. Moreover, if such people believe, as they do, that Satan rules the world, they will regard their responsibilities to the world as negligible, and the world as something to escape from.

Political cures only worsen the situation. For a changed society, changed men are necessary.

Estamos mais dispostos a ler sobre guerras e escândalos do que a ler a Bíblia: deleitamo-nos muito mais nos problemas.

The purpose of Biblical history is to trace the victory of Jesus Christ.

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.

The issue is the same today. What is our standard; by what standard shall we approach the problems of philosophy and the problems of everyday life? If we begin with anything other than the ontological Trinity, with the sovereignty of God as intellectually applied and systematically delineated in every aspect and avenue of human thought, we end with the destruction of Christian theology and the deterioration of Christian life.

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.

In the Great Commission, Jesus declared, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth" (Matt. 28:18–20). This is the joyful news the church must proclaim: all power and authority is given to Christ the King, who rules absolutely over heaven and earth. Christians

Truth is exclusive in every area, in religion, science, farming, and all things else. If you don't believe it, go pick your grapes from thorns, and your figs from thistles.

É melhor viver em meio aos problemas com o Deus triúno do que viver na opulência doentia de sonhos gerados pelo pecado original.

This is the world of polytheism: it knows no overall truth and order, only fragments and limited connections in the shambles of time and space. Polytheism is a fact of cultural decay and collapse.

Since man must, to play god, hate other men, it means that this pleasure must be a solitary one and must be exacted at the price of someone's suffering.

Laws cannot make men good: that is the work of the Holy Spirit. But laws can prevent men from doing evil.

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

As a book for sight, Revelation becomes a frustration; as a book for faith, it becomes a joy and a comfort.

Even as Jacob unwittingly embraced a bride who was not his choice, with unhappy consequences, so well-meaning Christian thinkers have unknowingly reasoned on premises they assumed to be Christian.

The heart of postmillennialism is the faith that Christ will through His people accomplish and put into force the glorious prophecies of Isaiah and all the Scriptures, that He shall overcome all His enemies through His covenant people, and that He shall exercise His power and Kingdom in all the world and over all men and nations, so that, whether in faith or in defeat, every knee shall bow to Him and every tongue shall confess to God (Rom. 14:11; Phil. 2:11).

Thus, an aspect of man's revolt against maturity and against life is his revolt against knowledge. Whereas the natural man may seek knowledge as a substitute for God, and as a means of becoming God (Gen. 3: 5), he soon turns from knowledge itself because it is inescapably revelational of God.

To deny to others their due praise and gratitude is not to rob them, for God will be their reward, but it is a judgment on ourselves. Never

In the Bible, women are presented as no less intelligent than men, nor any the less capable of redemption; the question is one of authority, not of humanity or dignity, whereas in the neoplatonist tradition women are seen at times almost as a different species or at best a very inferior form of man.

And any theology that seeks as its basic principle of interpretation Christ rather than the triune God seeks to reduce God to His relationship to man rather than to establish God in Himself as the basic principle of interpretation.

Just as loyalty is adherence to a trust, so treason is failure to abide by the terms of a trust. If all things are relative, and each is entitled to his own views with equal significance given to all views, then there can be neither loyalty nor treason.

By what standard, by what standard have you dared to approach the problem of life? Any standard other than the Trinity, the triune God in Himself, is an offense against God, and the destruction of Christian faith and life.