And Cause never was the reason for the evening Or the Tropic of Sir Galahad. —Dewey Bunnell, “Tin Man” (1974) In every campaign, the religion of humanity has presented its current cause as the ultimate standard, the acid test and “touchstone of...
Christ, the Second Adam, will perform the task assigned to the First Adam, causing the Holy Mountain to grow and encompass the entire world. —David Chilton, Paradise Restored (1985) . . . But the kingdom of Christ shall break other kingdoms in...
This is your preacceptance to the law school of your choice. —Judge Litten Mandrake, The Skulls (2000) Immediately on entering Bones the neophyte’s name is changed. —Anthony Sutton, America’s Secret Establishment (1986) The Skulls...
But I have never known a Communist who was not acutely aware of the crisis of history whose solution he found in Communism’s practical program, its vision and faith. —Whittaker Chambers, Witness (1952) God’s answer thus is addressed...
In a transatlantic airliner, as the navigator plots the plane’s projected course, at a certain point he will make a neat dot and draw a tiny circle around it, labeling it PNR. —Marshall & Manuel, The Light and the Glory (1980) History...
See the nations turn their swords into plowshares —Michael Jackson, “Heal the World” (1991) They will walk behind the ploughshare, They will put away the sword. —Les Misérable, “Finale” (1980) To End All Wars In the United Nations garden there is...
The goal of the Assyrian state was the creation of a unified world order; its methods were warfare, brutality, and terror. —Greg Uttinger, Prologue, A Christian Guide to Ancient History (2004) What Isaiah was condemning was Assyria’s...
Locke held that all legitimate governments rest on consent. Society is not natural to man, but rather conventional. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, The Roots of Reconstruction (1991) Indeed, to respect autonomy is often understood to be the chief way to...
And what is liberty? Can it be limited, or is true liberty only unlimited liberty? —Rousas J. Rushdoony, Law and Liberty (1977) Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord/But you’re gonna have to serve somebody. —Bob Dylan, Gotta Serve...
What the First Amendment separated was the Church as an institution from the State as an institution. —Gary DeMar, God and Government (1997) To admit that the church is separate from the state is not the same as saying that the state is separated...
The early councils had as their primary purpose the defense and establishment of truth, not unity. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, Foundations of Social Order (1978) Loving Those Who Hate God? “Should you help the ungodly, and love those who hate God?”...
“There is no other stream,” said the Lion. -C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (2009) Wash, and Be Clean Naaman and his entourage pulled up before the prophet’s hovel of a home. Naaman was ready to be impressed and amazed. His master, the king...
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