“This means that the meaning of all things, including my own meaning, your meaning, is only ascertainable through God and his word. So that if I have a relationship with anyone, whether it be my wife, or children, a friend, an enemy or a neighbor, a person I love, or a person I hate, apart from God’s work I am seeking a one-to-one relationship, one that is not mediated by God and His governing word.”

— R. J. Rushdoony