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“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 Bible is God's law-word which must govern every sphere of life and thought.”
― R.J. Rushdoony, Sovereignty

“The church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man.”
― J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Culture

“The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks.
Moreover, it speaks of everything.”
― Cornelius Van Til

“The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different. Of course, we want our children to become Christians. But that is just an addition to the all-consuming goal, that they would attain their own personal peace and affluence.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., Bound for Glory: God's Promise for Your Family

“The law you submit to uncritically indicates your religious commitment.”
― Joseph C. Morecraft III

“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

“​Oh God, it is amazing that men can talk so much about man's creaturely power and goodness, when, if thou didst not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incar​​nate.”
― Arthur Bennett, The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions

“We need to understand that a man can never lay down his religion and act as a religionless person.”
― Joseph C. Morecraft III, With Liberty & Justice for All: Christian Politics Made Simple

“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, A Christian Manifesto

“Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God's judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.”
― J.C. Ryle, Holiness

“Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.”
― Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor

“In this study, we will be attempting to answer the pivotal question: How does God want to be worshipped? How we want to worship God is irrelevant.”
― Joseph C. Morecraft III, How God Wants Us To Worship Him

“It holds almost universally in the history of the church, that until a doctrine has been fully discussed in a controversial way by men of talent and learning taking opposite sides, men's opinions regarding it are generally obscure and indefinite, and their language vague and confused, if not contradictory.”
― William Cunningham, Historical Theology

“We ourselves have so long ceased to use it [the Christian worldview] except for the discussion of the moral, the liturgical, or the spiritual, that it is rusty and out of date. We have no Christian vocabulary to match the complexities of contemporary political, social, and industrial life. We have long ceased to bring Christian judgement to bear upon the secular public world.”
― Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind: How Should a Christian Think?

“The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.”
― J. Gresham Machen

“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

“Men could be content to have the kingdom of heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in a feather bed to hell than to be carried to heaven in a ‘fiery chariot’ of zeal and violence.”
― Thomas Watson, Heaven Taken by Storm: Showing the Holy Violence a Christian Is to Put Forth in the Pursuit After Glory

“Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.”
― Abraham Kuyper

“He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.”
― Abraham Kuyper

“Do not focus your thoughts among the confused wheels of secondary causes, as -'O if this had been, this had not followed!' Look up to the master motion of the first wheel. In building, we see hewn stones and timbers under hammers and axes, yet the house in this beauty we do not see at the present, but it is in the mind of this builder. We also see unbroken clods, furrows, and stones, but we do not see the summer lilies, roses, and the beauty of a garden. Even so we do not presently see the outcome of God's decrees with his blessed purpose. It is hard to believe when his purpose is hidden and under the ground. Providence has a thousand keys to deliver his own even when all hope is gone. Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for him, and lay Christ's part on himself and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.”
― Samuel Rutherford

“Culture derives its meaning from man's faith in God; it is never an end in itself, but always a means of expressing one's religious faith.”
― Henry R. Van Til, The Calvinistic Concept of Culture

“Culture is "lived religion". It is the form that religion takes in the lives of men.”
― Henry R. Van Til, The Calvinistic Concept of Culture

“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.”
― R.J. Rushdoony

“God's Word will never pass away, but looking back to the Old Testament and since the time of Christ, with tears we must say that because of a lack of fortitude and faithfulness on the part of God's people, God's Word has many times been allowed to be bent, to conform to the surrounding, passing, changing culture of that moment rather than to stand as the inerrant Word of God judging the form of the world spirit and the surrounding culture of that moment. In the name of The Lord Jesus Christ, may our children and grandchildren not say that such can be said about us.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster

“One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!”
― R. Kent Hughes

“As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture.”
― Kenneth L. Gentry Jr., The Greatness of the Great Commission: The Christian Enterprise in a Fallen World

“Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is place in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no others hands the sacred and holy trust given to her.”
― J.R. Miller

“According to the Bible a tyrant is somebody, some civil magistrate that seeks to impose upon it's people another law than the law of God; that derives it policies and it's laws from another source of law, than the source of the law of God contained in Holy Scripture.”
― Joseph C. Morecraft III

“History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.”
― R.J. Rushdoony