It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
ABRAHAM KUYPERIn the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord
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… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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On the other hand … by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state.
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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And when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.
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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand – in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science.
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There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower.
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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.
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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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The question is not if the candidate’s heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
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You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!
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We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom
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One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me.
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Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.
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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
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The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
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To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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