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History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

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The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure of Negro men, their failure to be responsible, to support the family, or to provide authority. The same is true of American Indian tribes which are also matriarchal today.
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Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.
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We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.
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In the name of equal rights, women are being stripped of the protections of the family and given no place except the perverse competition of a sexual market in which increasingly shock, deviation, and aggressiveness command a premium . . .
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Segregation or separation is thus a basic principle of Biblical Law with respect to religion and morality. Every attempt to destroy this principle is an effort to reduce society to its lowest common denominator.
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The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.
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To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.
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Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
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Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.
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The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
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But integration and equality are myths they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.
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Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
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The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
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The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness
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Man lives in time but his life transcends time.
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People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience and throws light on dark corners in their lives which they prefer to keep dark.
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The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.
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A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.
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All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.
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Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.
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