What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
ABRAHAM KUYPERWhen the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin.
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It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
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The 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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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good,
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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.
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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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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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
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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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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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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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