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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.

Abraham Kuyper

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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Calvinism Character Church Ecclesiastical Exclusively Lutheranism
To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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Bear Bible Creation Homage Witness
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
An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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Allow Authority Follow Respect Sovereignty State
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
He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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Before Constantly Face God Standing Whatsoever
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
The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.
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Christian Church Families Gift Group Jesus Responsibility
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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Conservatism Glorious Orthodoxy Pit Spurious Treacherous
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
We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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Faith God Holy Passive Reject Silent
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye
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Age Drawn Empire External Eye Golden Parallel Yield
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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Candidate Christ Heart Name Out Speaks Starting
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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Critical Faith Life Scripture Soul Through Word
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
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

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