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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….

Abraham Kuyper

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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Art Come Exist Higher Motive Notion Something
There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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Christ Doe Inch Jesus Mine Sphere
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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Danger Hand Personal Virtue
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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Changing External Frequenting Impure World
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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Calvinism Character Church Ecclesiastical Exclusively Lutheranism
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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Acted Escape Mind Motive Seek Sooner Spur Upon
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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Conservatism Glorious Orthodoxy Pit Spurious Treacherous
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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Battle Condition Fire Principle Run Running Winning
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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Among Authority Descend Mutual Relationship Sphere
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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Beauty Birth Christian Flower Gave God Kind
In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.
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Alive Aspiration Cold Devotion Higher Practical
To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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Bear Bible Creation Homage Witness
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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Christ Domain Human Jesus Religious Sovereign Square
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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Aim Employed Glory God Service Strictly
In 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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Carve Conscience Good Nation People School State
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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Allow Christian Guilt Hidden Nothing Storehouse

And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….

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