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Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

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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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A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.
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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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The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
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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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Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.
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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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Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . . . The law is humane and also unsentimental. It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.
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Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
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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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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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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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The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
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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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It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society
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Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.
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All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
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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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[A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech.
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There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion. Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude to a new intolerance... Every law-system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law-system and to alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide
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