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1 " 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. "
― Gary North , Victim's Rights: The Biblical View of Civil Justice
2 " To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time. "
― Gary North , Rapture Fever Hb
3 " 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. "
― Gary North , Honest Money: Biblical Principles of Money and Banking (Biblical Blueprint Series, #5)
4 " 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. "
― Gary North , Leviticus: An Economic Commentary
5 " 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... "
― Gary North , Political Polytheism: The Myth Of Pluralism
6 " The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great mass of earth's inhabitants will place themselves under Christ's protection, and then voluntarily use his covenantal laws for self-government. Christian reconstruction begins with personal conversion to Christ and self-government under God's law; then it spreads to others through revival; and only later does it bring comprehensive changes in civil law, when the vast majority of voters voluntarily agree to live under biblical blueprints. "
― Gary North
7 " Creator and Sustainer. Men are to make their own mistakes and successes. Each man is to work out his salvation (or damnation) in fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12). Other men are to sit in judgment over him only when he commits public evil. They are not to command him as imitation gods. They are not to issue comprehensive commands and monitor him constantly. That is God’s job, not man’s. Thus, God’s hierarchy produces social freedom. It relieves mankind from any pretended autonomy from God’s total sovereignty. Men are not to seek to create predestinating hierarchies. They can leave their fellow men alone, so long as God’s institutional laws are obeyed in public. "
― Gary North , Liberating Planet Earth: An Introduction To Biblical Blueprints (Biblical Blueprint Series, #1)
8 " When you criticize someone with followers, the followers recognize that, if you are correct, they have been sucked in. If they had been sucked in, then they must not be too bright, or at least they were not well enough informed to form a critical judgment which would have led them to identify their leader as someone not worth following. So, a criticism of the leader produces a particular response in the followers. They feel that there has been an attack on them personally. The critic is saying, loud and clear, that anyone who has followed this particular leader is not a good judge of character, intellect, or facts. They are quite correct. This is exactly what the critic is saying. "
9 " Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ’s blood, Christ’s gospel, Christ’s church, and Christ’s expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays ‘bottled up’, confined to the historical skins of Palestine. "
10 " A state that claims to be a savior of mankind necessarily becomes the final judge of mankind. "
11 " If you don't know what money is, how will you obtain more of it? "
― Gary North , What Is Money?
