R.J. Rushdoony Professions : Philosopher Born : April 25, 1916 Died : February 8, 2001 Browse All Authors Top 49 quotes by R.J. Rushdoony 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 mean children 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 government integrity character 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 teaching mother children Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life. R.J. Rushdoony great-love coward democracy There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion. Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude to a new intolerance... Every law-system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law-system and to alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide R.J. Rushdoony suicide religious law We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test. R.J. Rushdoony tests use feelings 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. R.J. Rushdoony separation morality order The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government. R.J. Rushdoony alternatives government religion In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience. R.J. Rushdoony sin problem age 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 men believe It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society R.J. Rushdoony lawyer law culture 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. R.J. Rushdoony race rights men 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 today two 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 abortion baby men 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 atheism religion Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom. R.J. Rushdoony results law made The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word. R.J. Rushdoony results becoming sin History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith. R.J. Rushdoony dedicated majority minorities 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 family caring successful A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith. R.J. Rushdoony totality real men Similar Authors F. H. Bradley philosopher Irving Copi philosopher Ivan Ilyin philosopher Ivan Illich philosopher Bion of Borysthenes philosopher Bonaventure philosopher All Authors
