“The existence of the
Bible, as a book for the people, is the
greatest benefit which the human race has
ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle
it is a crime against humanity.” -
Immanuel Kant
“The Bible is the only force known to
history that has freed entire nations from
corruption while simultaneously giving them
political freedom.” - Vishal Mangalwadi
“It is impossible
to enslave, mentally or socially, a
bible-reading people. The principles of the
bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
- Horace Greeley
“The atheist is
cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment,
acting as though it has an objective
reference, when his philosophy in fact
precludes it.” - William A. Dembski
“Without God man
has no reference point to define himself.
20th century philosophy manifests the chaos
of man seeking to understand himself as a
creature with dignity while having no
reference point for that dignity.” - R.C.
Sproul
“Suppose the word
mountain meant metaphor, and dog, and Bible,
and the United States. Clearly, if a word
meant everything, it would mean nothing. If,
now, the law of contradiction is an
arbitrary convention, and if our linguistic
theorists choose some other convention, I
challenge them to write a book in conformity
with their principles. As a matter of fact
it will not be hard for them to do so.
Nothing more is necessary than to write the
word metaphor sixty thousand times: Metaphor
metaphor metaphor metaphor…. This means the
dog ran up the mountain, for the word
metaphor means dog, ran, and mountain.
Unfortunately, the sentence “metaphor
metaphor metaphor” also means, Next
Christmas is Thanksgiving, for the word
metaphor has these meanings as well.” -
Gordon H. Clark, God's Hammer: The Bible and
Its Critics
“May there not be
some subconscious jealousy that motivates
our reactions to other people? Why do we eat
chocolate sundaes when we know that we
should reduce? Are we free from the
influence of parental training? The
Scriptures say, “Train up a child in the way
he should go, and when he is old he will not
depart from it.” Parental training and all
education proceed on the assumption that the
will is not free, but can be trained,
motivated, and directed. Finally, beyond
both physiology and psychology there is God.
Can we be sure that he is not directing our
choices? Do we know that we are free from
his grace? The Psalm says, “Blessed is the
man whom you choose and cause to approach
you.” Is it certain that God has not caused
us to choose to approach him? Can we set a
limit to God's power? Can we tell how far it
extends and just where it ends? Are we
outside his control?” - Gordon H. Clark,
Religion, Reason & Revelation
“A theologian’s
epistemology controls his interpretation of
the Bible. If his epistemology is not
Christian, his exegesis will be
systematically distorted. If he has no
epistemology at all, his exegesis will be
unsystematically distorted.” - Gordon H.
Clark, The Incarnation
“If God did not
arrange [the world] this way, then there
must be an independent factor in the
universe. And if there is such, one
consequence and perhaps two follow. First,
the doctrine of creation must be abandoned.
A creation ex nihilo would be completely in
God's control. Independent forces cannot be
created forces, and created forces cannot be
independent.
Then, second, if
the universe is not God's creation, his
knowledge of it--past and future--cannot
depend on what he intends to do, but on his
observation of how it works. In such a case,
how could we be sure that God's observations
are accurate? How could we be sure that
these independent forces will not later show
an unsuspected twist that will falsify God's
predictions?
And, finally, on
this view God's knowledge would be
empirical, rather than an integral part of
his essence, and thus he would be a
dependent knower. These objections are
insurmountable. We can consistently believe
in creation, omnipotence, omniscience, and
the divine decree. But we cannot retain
sanity and combine any one of these with
free will.” - Gordon H. Clark, Religion,
Reason & Revelation
“That Liberalism
may be a tendency toward something very
different from itself, is a possibility in
its nature. For it is something which tends
to release energy rather than accumulate it,
to relax, rather than to fortify. It is a
movement not so much defined by its end, as
by its starting point; away from, rather
than towards something definite. Our point
of departure is more real to us than our
destination; and our destination is very
likely to present a very different picture
when arrived at, from the vaguer image
formed in the imagination. By destroying the
traditional social habits of the people, by
dissolving their natural collective
consciousness into individual constituents,
by licensing the opinions of the most
foolish, by substituting instruction for
education, by encouraging cleverness rather
than wisdom, the upstart rather than the
qualified, by fostering a notion of getting
on to which the alternative is a hopeless
apathy, Liberalism can prepare the way for
that which is its own negation: the
artificial, mechanized or brutalized control
which is a desperate remedy for its chaos.”
- T.S. Eliot
“When the
Christian is treated as an enemy of the
State, his course is very much harder, but
it is simpler. I am concerned with the
dangers to the tolerated minority; and in
the modern world, it may turn out that most
intolerable thing for Christians is to be
tolerated.” - T.S. Eliot
“If Christianity
goes, the whole of our culture goes. Then
you must start painfully again, and you
cannot put on a new culture ready-made. You
must wait for the grass to grow to feed the
sheep to give the wool out of which your new
coat will be made. You must pass through
many centuries of barbarism. We should not
live to see the new culture, nor would our
great-great-great-grandchildren: and if we
did, not one of us would be happy in it.” -
T. S. Eliot
“So long…as we
consider finance, industry, trade,
agriculture merely as competing interests to
be reconciled from time to time as best they
may, so long as we consider “education” as a
good in itself of which everyone has a right
to the utmost, without any ideal of the good
life for society or for the individual, we
shall move from one uneasy compromise to
another. To the quick and simple
organization of society for ends which,
being only material and worldly, must be as
ephemeral as worldly success, there is only
one alternative. As political philosophy
derives its sanction from ethics, and ethics
from the truth of religion, it is only by
returning to the eternal source of truth
that we can hope for any social organization
which will not, to its ultimate destruction,
ignore some essential aspect of reality. The
term “democracy,” as I have said again and
again, does not contain enough positive
content to stand alone against the forces
that you dislike––it can easily be
transformed by them. If you will not have
God (and He is a jealous God) you should pay
your respects to Hitler or Stalin.” - T.S.
Eliot
“The problem of
leading a Christian life in a non-Christian
society is now very present to us, and it is
a very different problem from that of the
accommodation between an Established Church
and dissenters. It is not merely the problem
of a minority in a society of individuals
holding an alien belief. It is the problem
constituted by our implication in a network
of institutions from which we cannot
disassociate ourselves: institutions the
operation of which appears no longer
neutral, but non-Christian. And as for the
Christian who is not conscious of his
dilemma — and he is in the majority — he is
becoming more and more de-Christianized by
all sorts of unconscious pressure: paganism
holds all the most valuable advertising
space.” - T.S. Eliot
“The Idea of a
Christian Society is one which we can accept
or reject; but if we are to accept it, we
must treat Christianity with a great deal
more intellectual respect than is our wont;
we must treat it as being for the individual
a matter primarily of thought and not of
feeling. The consequences of such an
attitude are too serious to be acceptable to
everybody: for when the Christian faith is
not only felt, but thought, it has practical
results which may be inconvenient.” - T.S.
Eliot
“That which is
called humanism, but what would be more
correctly called irreligious
anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to
the most essential questions of our life” -
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“We must realize
that the Reformation world view leads in the
direction of government freedom. But the
humanist world view with inevitable
certainty leads in the direction of statism.
This is so because humanists, having no god,
must put something at the center, and it is
inevitably society, government, or the
state.” - Francis A. Schaeffer
“I am convinced
that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and
went insane, it was not because of venereal
disease, though he did have this disease.
Rather, it was because he understood that
insanity was the only philosophic answer if
the infinite-personal God does not exist.” -
Francis A. Schaeffer
“If we as
Christians do not speak out as authoritarian
governments grow from within or come from
outside, eventually we or our children will
be the enemy of society and the state. No
truly authoritarian government can tolerate
those who have real absolute by which to
judge its arbitrary absolutes and who speak
out and act upon that absolute.” - Francis
A. Schaeffer
“If there is no
final place for civil disobedience, then the
government has been made autonomous, and as
such, it has been put in the place of the
living God.” - Francis A. Schaeffer
“True spirituality
covers all of reality. There are things the
Bible tells us to do as absolutes which are
sinful- which do not conform to the
character of God. But aside from these
things the Lordship of Christ covers all of
life and all of life equally. It is not only
that true spirituality covers all of life,
but it covers all parts of the spectrum of
life equally. In this sense there is nothing
concerning reality that is not spiritual.” -
Francis A. Schaeffer
“To make no
decision in regard to the growth of
authoritarian government is already a
decision for it.” - Francis A. Schaeffer
“The
moral absolutes rest upon God's character.
The moral commands He has given to men are
an expression of His character. Men as
created in His image are to live by choice
on the basis of what God is. The standards
of morality are determined by what conforms
to His character, while those things which
do not conform are immoral.” - Francis A.
Schaeffer
“Most people catch
their presuppositions from their family and
surrounding society, the way that a child
catches the measles. But people with
understanding realize that their
presuppositions should be *chosen* after a
careful consideration of which worldview is
true.” - Francis A. Schaeffer
“If man is not
made in the image of God, nothing then
stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no
good reason why mankind should be perceived
as special. Human life is cheapened. We can
see this in many of the major issues being
debated in our society today: abortion,
infanticide, euthanasia, the increase of
child abuse and violence of all kinds,
pornography ... , the routine torture of
political prisoners in many parts of the
world, the crime explosion, and the random
violence which surrounds us.” - Francis A.
Schaeffer
“When a man comes
under the blood of Christ, his whole
capacity as a man is refashioned. His soul
is saved, yes, but so are his mind and his
body. True spirituality means the lordship
of Christ over the total man.” - Francis A.
Schaeffer
“People have
presuppositions... By 'presuppositions' we
mean the basic way that an individual looks
at life- his worldview. The grid through
which he sees the world. Presuppositions
rest upon that which a person considers to
be the truth of what exists. A person's
presuppositions provide the basis for their
values- and therefore the basis for their
decisions.” - Francis A. Schaeffer
“In face of this
modern nihilism, Christians are often
lacking in courage. We tend to give the
impression that we will hold on to the
outward forms whatever happens, even if God
really is not there. But the opposite ought
to be true of us, so that people can see
that we demand the truth of what is there
and that we are not dealing merely with
platitudes. In other words, it should be
understood that we take this question of
truth and personality so seriously that if
God were not there we would be among the
first of those who had the courage to step
out of the queue.” - Francis A. Schaeffer
“I hold that
belief in God is not merely as reasonable as
other belief, or even a little or infinitely
more probably true than other belief; I hold
rather that unless you believe in God you
can logically believe in nothing else” -
Cornelius Van Til
“Apologetics, like
systematics, is valuable to the precise
extent that it presses the truth upon the
attention of the natural man. The natural
man must be blasted out of his hideouts, his
caves, his last lurking places. Neither
Roman Catholic nor Arminian methodologies
have the flamethrowers with which to reach
him. In the all-out 'war between the
Christian and the natural man as he appears
in modern garb it is only the atomic energy
of a truly Reformed methodology that will
explode the last Festung to which the Roman
Catholic and the Arminian always permit him
to retreat and to dwell in safety” -
Cornelius Van Til from “The Defense Of The
Faith”
“The Reformed
apologist throws down the gauntlet and
challenges his opponent to a duel of life
and death from the start. He does not first
travel in the same direction and in the same
automobile with the natural man for some
distance in order then mildly to suggest to
the driver that they ought perhaps to change
their course somewhat and follow a road that
goes at a different slant from the one they
are on. The Reformed apologist knows that
there is but one way to the truth and that
the natural man is traveling it, but in the
wrong direction.” - Cornelius Van Til from
“The Defense Of The Faith”
“...to engage in
philosophical discussion does not mean that
we begin without Scripture. We do not first
defend theism philosophically by an appeal
to reason and experience in order, after
that, to turn to Scripture for our knowledge
and defense of Christianity. We get our
theism as well as our Christianity from the
Bible. The Bible is thought of as
authoritative on everything of which it
speaks. And it speaks of everything...” -
Cornelius Van Til from “The Defense Of The
Faith”
“The only proof
for the existence of God is that without God
you couldn’t prove anything.” - Cornelius
Van Til
“Agnosticism is
epistemologically self-contradictory on its
own assumptions because its claim to make no
assertion about ultimate reality rests upon
a most comprehensive assertion about
ultimate reality.” - Cornelius Van Til
“If he (the
unbeliever) is asked to use his reason as
the judge of the credibility of the
Christian revelation without at the same
time being asked to renounce his view of
himself as ultimate, then he is virtually
asked to believe and to disbelieve in his
own ultimacy at the same time and in the
same sense.” - Cornelius Van Til from “The
Defense Of The Faith”
“...if we first
allow the legitimacy of the natural man's
assumption of himself as the ultimate
reference point in interpretation in any
dimension we cannot deny his right to
interpret Christianity itself in
naturalistic terms.” - Cornelius Van Til
from “The Defense Of The Faith”
“It is of critical
importance in the current scene that a
consistently Reformed apologetic be set
forth. The non-Christian point of view is
much more self-consciously hostile to
Christianity than it has ever been. The fact
that the assumption of human autonomy is the
root and fountain of all forms of
non-Christian thought is more apparent than
it has ever been in the past. Any argument
for the truth of Christianity that is
inconsistent with itself should not expect
to have a hearing. Only a position which
boldly and humbly challenges the wisdom of
the world and, with the Apostle Paul, brings
out that it has been made foolishness with
God will serve the purpose. Only such a
method which asks man to serve and worship
the Creator rather than the creature honors
God and assigns to him the place that he
truly occupies. Only such a method is
consistent with the idea that the Holy
Spirit must convict and convince the sinner.
The Holy Spirit cannot be asked to honor a
method that does not honor God as God...” -
Cornelius Van Til in A Christian Theory of
Knowledge
“Here then is the
heart of the matter: through the fall of
Adam man has set aside the law of his
Creator and therewith has become a law to
himself. He will be subject to none but
himself. He seeks to be autonomous. He knows
that he is a creature and ought to be
subject to the law of his Creator. He knows
that his Creator has made him to be his
image; he knows that he ought therefore to
love his Maker and bountiful Benefactor. He
knows that the light of knowledge depends
for him upon his walking self-consciously in
the revelation of God. Yet he now tries to
be the source of his own light. He makes
himself the final reference point in all
predication.” - Cornelius Van Til in A
Christian Theory of Knowledge
“In
contradistinction from both Roman Catholics
and Arminians, however, the Reformed
apologist cannot agree at all with the
methodology of the natural man. Disagreeing
with the natural man's interpretation of
himself as the ultimate reference-point, the
Reformed apologist must seek his point of
contact with the natural man in that which
is beneath the threshold of his working
consciousness, in the sense of deity which
he seeks to suppress. And to do this the
Reformed apologist must also seek a point of
contact with the systems constructed by the
natural man. But this point of contact must
be in the nature of a head-on collision.
There is no head-on collision with the
systems of the natural man there will be no
point of contact with the sense of deity in
the natural man.” - Cornelius Van Til from
“The Defense Of The Faith”
“If one does not
make human knowledge wholly dependent upon
the original self-knowledge and consequent
revelation of God to man, then man will have
to seek knowledge within himself as the
final reference point. Then he will have to
seek an exhaustive understanding of reality.
He will have to hold that if he cannot
attain to such an exhaustive understanding
of reality he has no true knowledge of
anything at all. Either man must then know
everything or he knows nothing. This is the
dilemma that confronts every form of
non-Christian epistemology.” - Cornelius Van
Til
“Once the biblical
defense has been given it is necessary to
expose the fact that the non-Christian
rejects the Christian evidence because of
his commitment to independence. Every
thought contrary to Christianity which the
unbeliever has results from his desire to
set himself up as the independent judge of
truth. We live in a day when many
non-Christians think they are neutral and
objective. So, their basic commitment must
be exposed. This can be done by a series of
questions. If the Christian wishes to show
the non-Christian that he has committed
himself to independence he may simply assert
that it is the case and then ask, “Why do
you believe that?” or “How do you know
that?” again and again until the point
becomes obvious. The unbeliever thinks and
believes as he does because he has
determined it to be correct independently.
For instance, the unbeliever may argue that
the Christian God does not exist. When asked
“Why?” he may say, 'You have shown me no
convincing evidence.” When asked why he
thinks the evidence is unconvincing, he will
have to admit that the evidence does not
meet with his independent criterion of
truth. When asked why he accepts his
criterion of truth he can be shown that it
is the result of his own independent
decision to look at things without
submission to the Bible and to God.
By exposing the
commitment of the unbeliever, the Christian
reveals the truth that all men have either
chosen for Christ or against Him. The line
of division is clearly drawn and the door is
opened for demonstrating the hopelessness of
the non-Christian way of thinking.” -
Richard L. Pratt Jr. from “Every Thought
Captive”
“All the scheming,
craftiness, and efforts of unbelievers turn
against themselves as the judgment of God is
revealed to them. This inherent futility is
shown to the non-Christian by the believer
as he points to the internal inconsistencies
within the unbelieving system of thought. In
this capacity the apologist becomes a
messenger of judgment revealing to his
opponent the hopelessness and futility of
his rejection of Christ.” - Richard L. Pratt
Jr. from “Every Thought Captive”
“God is thus the
principle of definition, of law, and of all
things. He is the premise of all thinking,
and the necessary presupposition for every
sphere of thought. It is blasphemy therefore
to attempt to “prove” God; God is the
necessary presupposition of all proof. To
ground any sphere of thought, life, or
action, or any sphere of being, on anything
other than the triune God is thus blasphemy.
Education without God as its premise, law
which does not presuppose God and rest on
His law, a civil order which does not derive
all authority from God, or a family whose
foundation is not God's word, is
blasphemous.” - R.J. Rushdoony from The
Institutes of Biblical Law
“…in the present
day not a few are found, who deny the being
of a God, yet, whether they will or not,
they occasionally feel the truth which they
are desirous not to know. We do not read of
any man who broke out into more unbridled
and audacious contempt of the Deity than C.
Caligula, and yet none showed greater dread
when any indication of divine wrath was
manifested. Thus, however unwilling, he
shook with terror before the God whom he
professedly studied to condemn. You may
every day see the same thing happening to
his modern imitators. The most audacious
despiser of God is most easily disturbed,
trembling at the sound of a falling leaf.
How so, unless in vindication of the divine
majesty, which smites their consciences the
more strongly the more they endeavour to
flee from it. They all, indeed, look out for
hiding-places where they may conceal
themselves from the presence of the Lord,
and again efface it from their mind; but
after all their efforts they remain caught
within the net. Though the conviction may
occasionally seem to vanish for a moment, it
immediately returns, and rushes in with new
impetuosity, so that any interval of relief
from the gnawing of conscience is not unlike
the slumber of the intoxicated or the
insane, who have no quiet rest in sleep, but
are continually haunted with dire horrific
dreams. Even the wicked themselves,
therefore, are an example of the fact that
some idea of God always exists in every
human mind.” - John Calvin in Institutes of
the Christian Religion
“Men of sound
judgment will always be sure that a sense of
divinity which can never be effaced is
engraved upon men's minds. Indeed, the
perversity of the impious, who though they
struggle furiously are unable to extricate
themselves from the fear of God, is abundant
testimony that this conviction, namely, that
there is some God, is naturally inborn in
all, and is fixed deep within, as it were in
the very marrow.” - John Calvin in the
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1
“Darwinism by
itself did not produce the Holocaust, but
without Darwinism, especially in its social
Darwinist and eugenics permutations, neither
Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had
the necessary scientific underpinnings to
convince themselves and their collaborators
that one of the world’s greatest atrocities
was really morally praiseworthy.” - Richard
Weikart
“To sustain the
belief that there is no God, atheism has to
demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is
tantamount to saying, I have infinite
knowledge that there is no being in
existence with infinite knowledge.” - Ravi
Zacharias
“When we go to
look at the different world views that
atheists and theists have, I suggest we can
prove the existence of God from the
impossibility of the contrary. The
transcendental proof for God's existence is
that without Him it is impossible to prove
anything. The atheist world view is
irrational and cannot consistently provide
the preconditions of intelligible
experience, science, logic, or morality. The
atheist world view cannot allow for laws of
logic, the uniformity of nature, the ability
for the mind to understand the world, and
moral absolutes. In that sense the atheist
world view cannot account for our debate
tonight.” - Greg Bahnsen from “The Great
Debate”
“Paul infallibly
declares in Colossians 2:3-8 that “all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid in
Christ.” Note that he says all wisdom and
knowledge is deposited in the person of
Christ - whether it be about the war of
1812, water’s chemical composition, the
literature of Shakespeare, or the laws of
logic! Every academic pursuit and every
thought must be related to Jesus Christ, for
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
(John 14:6) To avoid Christ in your thought
at any point, then, is to be misled,
untruthful, and spiritually dead. To put
aside your Christian commitments when it
comes to defending the faith or sending your
children to school is willfully to steer
away from the only path to wisdom and truth
found in Christ. It is not the end or
outcome of knowledge to fear the Lord; it is
the beginning of knowledge reverence Him
(Prov. 1:7-9).” - Greg L. Bahnsen in Always
Ready
“Imagine a person
who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air
exists' but continues to breathe air while
he argues. Now intellectually, atheists
continue to breathe - they continue to use
reason and draw scientific conclusions
[which assumes an orderly universe], to make
moral judgments [which assumes absolute
values] - but the atheistic view of things
would in theory make such 'breathing'
impossible. They are breathing God's air all
the time they are arguing against him.” -
Greg Bahnsen
“The civil
magistrate cannot function without some
ethical guidance, without some standard of
good and evil. If that standard is not to be
the revealed law of God… then what will it
be? In some form or expression it will have
to be the law of man (or men) - the standard
of self-law or autonomy. And when autonomous
laws come to govern a commonwealth, the
sword is certainly wielded in vain, for it
represents simply the brute force of some
men’s will against the will of other men.” -
Greg L. Bahnsen
“If no divine law
is recognized above the law of the State,
then the law of man has become absolute in
men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier
to totalitarianism.” - Greg L. Bahnsen
“My argument
against God was that the universe seemed so
cruel and unjust. But how had I got this
idea of just and unjust? A man does not call
a line crooked unless he has some idea of a
straight line. What was I comparing this
universe with when I called it unjust? If
the whole show was bad and senseless from A
to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was
supposed to be part of the show, find myself
in such a violent reaction against it?... Of
course I could have given up my idea of
justice by saying it was nothing but a
private idea of my own. But if i did that,
then my argument against God collapsed
too--for the argument depended on saying the
world was really unjust, not simply that it
did not happen to please my fancies. Thus,
in the very act of trying to prove that God
did not exist - in other words, that the
whole of reality was senseless - I found I
was forced to assume that one part of
reality - namely my idea of justice - was
full of sense. If the whole universe has no
meaning, we should never have found out that
it has no meaning: just as, if there were no
light in the universe and therefore no
creatures with eyes, we should never have
known it was dark. Dark would be without
meaning.” - C.S. Lewis
“Atheism turns out
to be too simple. If the whole universe has
no meaning, we should never have found out
that it has no meaning.” - C.S. Lewis
“When you say
there's too much evil in this world you
assume there's good. When you assume there's
good, you assume there's such a thing as a
moral law on the basis of which to
differentiate between good and evil. But if
you assume a moral law, you must posit a
moral Law Giver, but that's Who you're
trying to disprove and not prove. Because if
there's no moral Law Giver, there's no moral
law. If there's no moral law, there's no
good. If there's no good, there's no evil.
What is your question?” - Ravi Zacharias
“If there is no
God, then all that exists is time and chance
acting on matter. If this is true then the
difference between your thoughts and mine
correspond to the difference between shaking
up a bottle of Mountain Dew and a bottle of
Dr. Pepper. You simply fizz atheistically
and I fizz theistically. This means that you
do not hold to atheism because it is true ,
but rather because of a series of chemical
reactions… Morality, tragedy, and sorrow are
equally evanescent. They are all empty
sensations created by the chemical reactions
of the brain, in turn created by too much
pizza the night before. If there is no God,
then all abstractions are chemical
epiphenomena, like swamp gas over fetid
water. This means that we have no reason for
assigning truth and falsity to the chemical
fizz we call reasoning or right and wrong to
the irrational reaction we call morality. If
no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon
units of mostly water. And nothing else.” -
Douglas Wilson
“God built into
the creation a variety of cultural spheres,
such as the family, economics, politics,
art, and intellectual inquiry. Each of these
spheres has its own proper “business” and
needs its own unique pattern of authority.
When we confuse spheres, by violating the
proper boundaries of church and state, for
instance, or reducing the academic life to a
business enterprise, we transgress the
patterns that God has set.” - Abraham Kuyper
“Humanistic law
aims at saving man and remaking society. For
Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.”
- Rousas John Rushdoony, Law and Liberty
“Socialism is
politicized envy.” - Rousas John Rushdoony
“It must be
recognized that in any culture the source of
law is the god of that society.” - Rousas
John Rushdoony
“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.” - Rousas John Rushdoony, Law and
Liberty
“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.” - Rousas John 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.” - Rousas John
Rushdoony
“Today, most
Americans have lost their faith in Christ as
Savior, and they expect civil government to
be their savior. They have no desire for the
responsibilities of self-government, and so
they say to politicians, 'Do thou rule over
us.' Instead of Jesus Christ as their good
shepherd, they elect politicians to be their
shepherds on a program of socialistic
security for all.” - R. J. Rushdoony
“A public-school
system, if it means the providing of free
education for those who desire it, is a
noteworthy and beneficent achievement of
modern times; but when once it becomes
monopolistic it is the most perfect
instrument for tyranny which has yet been
devised. Freedom of thought in the middle
ages was combated by the Inquisition, but
the modern method is far more effective.”
(1923) John Gresham Machen
“The sermon which
does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus
Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a
sort of sermon that will make the devils in
hell laugh, but make the angels of God
weep.” - Charles Spurgeon
“And people who do
not know the Lord ask why in the world we
waste our lives as missionaries. They forget
that they too are expending their lives...
and when the bubble has burst they will have
nothing of eternal significance to show for
the years they have wasted.” - Nait Saint
“The nature of
Christ's salvation is woefully
misrepresented by the present-day
evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell
rather than a Savior from sin. And that is
why so many are fatally deceived, for there
are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake
of Fire who have no desire to be delivered
from their carnality and worldliness.” -
A.W. Pink
“Wherever the
Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable
treasure vanishes from the Christian Church.
With its recovery will come unsuspected
power.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“We ought always
to beware of making the smallest claim for
ourselves.” - John Calvin
“The nature of the
Divine goodness is not only to open to those
who knock. but also to cause them to knock
and ask.” - Augustine
“You may be quite
certain that if you love God it is a fruit,
not a root.” - C.H. Spurgeon
“We are not born
again by repentance or faith or conversion:
we repent and believe because we have been
born again.” - John Murray
“As grace led me
to faith in the first-place, so grace will
keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in
its origin and continuance, is a gift of
grace.” - J.I. Packer
“Regeneration,
however it is described, is a divine
activity in us, in which we are not the
actors but the recipients.” - Sinclair
Ferguson
“Grace alone makes
the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them
gracious; and the same grace alone will
render them everlastingly glorious in the
heaven of heavens.” - Augustus Toplady
“Without the Holy
Spirit there would be no new birth, no
illumination, no understanding or affection
for the gospel, and thus no faith -- in
other words, no Christians.” - J.W. Hendryx
“To make human
action the cause of divine blessing is to
overturn the whole nature of salvation.” -
Iain Murray
"Almost every natural
man that hears of hell, flatters himself
that he shall escape it." - Jonathan Edwards
"If no divine law is
recognized above the law of the State, then
the law of man has become absolute in men's
eyes--there is then no logical barrier to
totalitarianism." - Greg L. Bahnsen
"To reject revelational
epistemology is to commit yourself to
defending the truth of autonomous
epistemology." - Greg L. Bahnsen
"Socialism is simply
Communism for people without the
testosterone to man the barricades." - Gary
North
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
"Because God has made us
for Himself, our hearts are restless until
they rest in Him." - Saint Augustine
"God is that, the
greater than which cannot be conceived." -
Anselm of Canterbury
Pascal’s Wager
(1) It is possible that
the Christian God exists and it is possible
that the Christian God does not exist.
(2) If one believes in
the Christian God then if he exists then one
receives an infinitely great reward and if
he does not exist then one loses little or
nothing.
(3) If one does not
believe in the Christian God then if he
exists then one receives an infinitely great
punishment and if he does not exist then one
gains little or nothing.
(4) It is better to
either receive an infinitely great reward or
lose little or nothing than it is to either
receive an infinitely great punishment or
gain little or nothing.
Therefore:
(5) It is better to
believe in the Christian God than it is not
to believe in the Christian God.
(6) If one course of
action is better than another then it is
rational to follow that course of action and
irrational to follow the other.
Therefore:
(7) It is rational to
believe in the Christian God and irrational
not to believe in the Christian God.
“You are not reading the
word of a human being but the Word of God,
the Most High. He desires pupils who
diligently note and observe what He says.
Moreover, if it is well said that the
letters of princes should be read three
times because they must speak with
deliberation in order not to be considered
fools, how much more necessary it is for one
to read the letters of God, that is the Holy
Scriptures, three, four, ten, a hundred, a
thousand, and many thousand times. For God
speaks with deliberation and weight, nay, He
is the eternal Wisdom itself. Whoever does
this becomes better and more learned from
Scripture. Whoever does not do so learns
nothing, nay, becomes the worse for it.” -
Martin Luther
"He (Mohammed) seduced
the people by promises of carnal pleasure to
which the concupiscence of the flesh urges
us. His teaching also contained precepts
that were in conformity with his promises,
and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In
all this, as is not unexpected; he was
obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the
truth of his doctrine, he brought forward
only such as could be grasped by the natural
ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom.
Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled
with many fables and with doctrines of the
greatest falsity." - Thomas Aquinas