"God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so as to make God the cause of sin in the sense of being its responsible author"

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Source : Louis Berkhof (1953). “Systematic Theology”, p.111, Lulu.com

Louis Berkhof

#Causes Quotes #World Quotes #May Quotes

“My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.”
“The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.”

Source : William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”
“You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving.”
“He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.”
“The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them out to acountants, insurance brokers, hairdressers, mothers of children, black belts, pop stars, taxi drivers, painters, lesbians, doctors etc. etc. The X-Files, Buffy, the Matrix, X-Men - mainstream culture is not what it once was when science fiction and comics fans huddled in cellars like Gnostic Christians dodging the Romans. We should come up into the light soon before we suffocate.”
“I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.”
“There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.”

Source : Song: I've Got Mine
“Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.”

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