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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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Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.
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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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History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.
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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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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 Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness
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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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God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.
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Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
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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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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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Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.
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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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Man lives in time but his life transcends time.
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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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Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
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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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