In our good works nothing is our own. - John Calvin

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I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.

John Calvin

In our good works nothing is our own.

Good, Good Work, Nothing, Stewardship, Works

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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

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The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it. . We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.

Understanding, Majesty, Splendor, Capacity, Adore

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

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Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

Heart, Men, Worship, Understand, Sufficient

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

Believe, Idolatry, Idols, Like, Man, Men

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George W. Bush

I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.

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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I have very strong Canadian connections. My daughter was born there a year and half ago. But because of the nature of my job, I need to be in countries where I can get the stories that I am looking at.

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Frantz Fanon

The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.

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Colin Gunton

From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.

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Roy Blunt

I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.

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