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Quote by R.J. Rushdoony

“In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.”

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R.J. Rushdoony was an American philosopher, born on April 25, 1916, and died on February 8, 2001. He is known for his contributions to Christian theology and political philosophy. more

“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.”

“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.”

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“Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.”

Democracy Coward Great Love

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“Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . . . The law is humane and also unsentimental. It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.”

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“The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.”

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“Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”

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Book:The Humans: A Novel

Source: The Humans: A Novel

“If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”

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Book:The Humans: A Novel

Source: The Humans: A Novel

“If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.”

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Book:The Humans: A Novel

Source: The Humans: A Novel

“Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.”

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Book:The Humans: A Novel

Source: The Humans: A Novel

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