Rousas John Rushdoony Quotes

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

My faith guides my life.

Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by his appetites.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.