By This Standard Quotes

“If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today

“The fact that God’s law is binding on present-day civil magistrates explains both why the Christian should shun rebellious attitudes toward rulers, and why Christians may not cooperate with unjust regimes. Absolute submission under any and all circumstances, or absolute independence of the magistrate regarding each and every decision he makes, may be simple and easy positions to understand or follow, but the more complex attitude of general submission for the sake of the Lord but resistance when God’s law is outrageously violated is more faithful to Scriptural teaching and truer to political realities.”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today

“John Murray wrote: The least of God’s commandments, if they bind us, bind others. We must resist the virulent poison of individualism which tolerates in others the indifference and disobedience which we cannot justify in ourselves…. The moment we become complacent to the sins of others then we have begun to relax our own grip on the sanctity of the commandments of God, and we are on the way to condoning the same sin in ourselves”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today