When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin.
ABRAHAM KUYPERThe sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel.
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face 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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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But within these spheres … another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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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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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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