54 Quotes by Gary North

The trouble is, nobody knows exactly how the world really works. We are all fallible people with limited knowledge. It is only through Biblical revelation from the One who knows how the world really works because He made it and actively sustains it that anyone can come to a competent understanding of the world.

To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time.

The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedom… the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims.

I have adopted what I calla "fat book" strategy. A movement that seeks to change theworld cannot make its claims believable with only short books.The world is much too large and much too complex to becapable of being restructured in terms of large-print, thin paperbackbooks - the only kind of books that most Christiansread these days. The best that any movement can expect toachieve if it publishes only short books is to persuade readersthat the world cannot be changed.

There is no doubt that Christianity teaches pluralism, but a very special kind of pluralism: plural institutions under God's single comprehensive law system. It does not teach a pluralism of law structures, or a pluralism of moralities, for this sort of hypothetical legal pluralism (as distinguished from institutional pluralism) is always either polytheistic or humanistic...

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.