Kevin Swanson > Quotes

“Education is the preparation of a child intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and physically for life and for eternity.”
― Kevin Swanson, Upgrade: 10 Secrets to the Best Education for Your Child

“John Knox's dying words were, 'Lord, grant true pastors to Thy kirk.' Such was the last prayer of a great man without whom there would have been no America, no Puritans, no Pilgrims, no Scottish covenanters, no Presbyterians, no Patrick Henry, no Samuel Adams, no George Washington. Could it have been so simple? John Knox's agenda was far from political. All he wanted were more pastors and elders. This is our agenda. Lord grant true pastors to Thy church!”
― Kevin Swanson, The Second Mayflower

“A common misconception of education comes when the definition of education narrows to the intellectual. The child is compartmentalized. He is not seen as a whole person, fully-integrated with physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual capacities. Thus, if an educational program attempts to address the child's intellect while ignoring his spiritual and emotional development, the approach is sadly ignoring the true reality of the child. Likewise, those who separate the spiritual and emotional part of a child from the intellectual make a big mistake. You cannot delegate only the intellectual training of your child to professionals and retain just the spiritual and emotional for yourself. Whatever class is taught, the whole child is affected.”
― Kevin Swanson

“It should make perfect sense that if a man is a personal, self-consciously moral creature, and if a personal creature is made by a personal Creator, then the personal Creator must have a personal interest in the personal creatures He made.”
― Kevin Swanson, Apostate

“We want to take our rugged individualism and turn it into a rugged covenantalism.”
― Kevin Swanson

“The crux of the worldview conflict... is the denial of God's right to be God, and the usurpation of that right by man. In a word, it is a life or death struggle over _sovereignty_. Who will be sovereign- man or God?

If God has lost the authority to be sovereign over reality, if He has lost the authority to provide objective law, and if He has lost the authority to reveal absolute truth, then in the eyes of men, He has lost the right to be God. He has been stripped of His "God-ness," or the very attributes which make Him God.

At the same time, man is never content to be godless. He must have a god. Somebody or something must provide that authority. Thus, modern man gladly assumes that position, and humanist man becomes his own ultimate authority... This is the Gettysburg of the worldview war of the 21st century.”
― Kevin Swanson, Apostate

“There are many themes found in the Book of Psalms that are generally not found in modern music. These include the fear of God, the righteousness and justice of God, the sovereignty of God, the judgement of God, the evil of sin, spiritual and physical warfare, the arch enemies of the Christian, the destruction of the wicked, the reality of hell, the blessedness of the church, the vicious attacks upon the church, the commandments of God, the dominion of David’s son, and so on. Without the backdrop of these truths, the themes of love, mercy, faith, and salvation become largely meaningless.”
― Kevin Swanson

“John Calvin called the Book of Psalms ‘an anatomy of all parts of the soul.’ All the range of emotions are expressed; the Psalms weave an emotional fabric for the human soul. These inspired lyrics take us by the hand and train us in proper emotion. They lead us to emotional maturity.”
― Kevin Swanson, The Tattooed Jesus: What Would the Real Jesus Do with Pop Culture?

“Only the incomprehensibilities of a Triune God could explain the impossibilities of human philosophy.”
― Kevin Swanson, Apostate

“The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith.”
― Kevin Swanson

“Ultimately, we must turn to the God who is both the One and the Many for the standard of His law. He created to live both as individuals and as corporate units; and His law perfectly balances the liberties of the many with the power of the one political unit.”
― Kevin Swanson, The Second Mayflower

“The Psalms draw a hard and fast distinction between the righteous and the wicked, something that is not appreciated in a period of religious syncretism.”
― Kevin Swanson

“The sovereignty of God has been dying a slow death of a thousand qualifications.”
― Kevin Swanson, Apostate

“Freedom cannot exist without morality, and morality can only be defined by the God who, by definition is the source of morality”
― Kevin Swanson, The Second Mayflower

“Without freedom, the family and faith cannot survive. Without faith, we will see freedom and family languish. And without family, man will give up on a generational commitment to faith and freedom.”
― Kevin Swanson, The Second Mayflower

“In the mind of the kid in skinny jeans leading the worship band, there isn’t a large enough gap between holiness and sinfulness, truth and error, demons and angels, or heaven and hell.”
― Kevin Swanson

“Popular culture would never have achieved such a high degree of influence had it not been for the disappearance of family culture and Folk culture. With our social revolution, there would have been no cultural revolution. Without age0segregated high schools and the disappearance of the family economy, there would have been no Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, or Katy Perry.”
― Kevin Swanson

“We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education with social.”
― Kevin Swanson, Apostate - The Men Who Destroyed the Christian West

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isa. 5:20) If all that is evil is called good, what is there left to call evil, but one thing: those Christians that uphold the objective, eternal law of the Creator of heaven and earth.”
― Kevin Swanson, Apostate - The Men Who Destroyed the Christian West

“Our faith does more than assent to propositions, such as the historical fact of Christ's resurrection. Persons who believe in the resurrection will live in a manner that reflects that belief.”
― Kevin Swanson

“Most Christians prefer to keep culture in the category of adiophora- "things indifferent" -and assume it is harmless or of little influence.”
― Kevin Swanson

“While the world is “entertaining themselves to death,” we are working and resting. This is the essence of the fourth commandment. We work for God and we rest in God (Heb. 4: 10).”
― Kevin Swanson, The Tattooed Jesus: What Would the Real Jesus Do with Pop Culture?

“Would Jesus tattoo Leviticus 19:26 on His left thigh? The answer is clearly “No. He wouldn’t.” The simple answer to the question, “What would Jesus do?” is very simply, “The will of God.” Jesus would obey His Father’s will as expressed in Scripture.”
― Kevin Swanson, The Tattooed Jesus: What Would the Real Jesus Do with Pop Culture?

“I believe that in this way the teacher is the prophet of the true god and the usherer in of the true kingdom of god.”
― Kevin Swanson, Apostate - The Men Who Destroyed the Christian West

“From all accounts, it seems the faithful opposition is reduced to Gideon's 300. The day has arrived for Christians to engage the battle...From now on, true Christians will engage the battle of ideas in academy. The time for giving up ground is over. Now we must fight. We must engage the [B]iblical worldview vigorously in the world of great literature. The greatests wars ever fought in history are not those fought by sword or artillery. The greatest battles are engaged in the realm of ideas”
― Kevin Swanson, Apostate

“In the political war the enemy presents itself in its true colors. It is much harder to discern the enemy in the cultural war.”
― Kevin Swanson

“The cultural war tests the true commitment of the human heart.”
― Kevin Swanson

“There is no room for rosy eyed acceptance of the cultural decay around us. Highly suspect will be any Christian literary and cultural critic who makes too much room for Lady Gaga, Harry Potter, Hester Prynne, Huckleberry Finn, James Bond, Katniss Everdeen, Joe Brooks, Leroy Van Dyke, and Star Trek: Into Darkness. Those who enthusiastically embrace these cultural icons appear to be happy with the macro-cultural trends of the Christian apostate world. That being the case, what does this say about their faith, their worldview, and their own cultural trajectories? Could it be that they have embraced the tattooed Jesus---the false Christs of culture? Indeed, many have been wooed by a false prophet, a false priest, a false redeemer, and a false king. They have been rescued from the wrong sins and have taken on the wrong view of reality, truth, and. ethics. They have embraced the wrong religion, and they have joined the apostasy.”
― Kevin Swanson, The Tattooed Jesus

“To consign all of western culture to the devil also ignores the 2000-year reign of Jesus Christ.”
― Kevin Swanson

“When many Christian teachers enter the public schools, instead of teaching the fear of God as the beginning of knowledge, they do just the opposite. They teach children not to fear God. In so doing, they contribute to the ongoing demise of the Christian faith in academics, politics, and the marketplace.”
― Kevin Swanson, The Tattooed Jesus: What Would the Real Jesus Do with Pop Culture?