It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society
R.J. RushdoonyChristianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.
R.J. RushdoonyThe end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.
R.J. RushdoonyLaw is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
R.J. RushdoonyThe 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.
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