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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.

Abraham Kuyper

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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Art Business Doe Grace Science Sphere Understand
The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Austerity Church Existence Poor Prolonging Relation
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
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
… 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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Gratefully Hand Institution Liberty Mean Stat
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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Beauty Birth Flower God Kind Trust
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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Flight Longer Monastic Life Rest Sinful Upon World
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
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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Age Art Barren Dominating Emotion Intellectualism Money Reduce Soul Unchecked
Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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God Idea Live Plagiarsing Sin Solely
Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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Goal Process Ultimate Unity Way
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
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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Best Friend Friendship God Near Pushes
God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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Creation Hand Head Heart Mysticism World
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
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

An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.

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