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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

Abraham Kuyper

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
. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.
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Genius Gift God Grace Possessed Responsible Sovereignty
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
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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Bible Christ Church Community Hand Impossible
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
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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Dark Diamond Glasses Light Piece Scripture Soon Strike
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
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
What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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Body Hell Other Realm Restraint Soul
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
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
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
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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Best Friend Friendship God Near Pushes
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
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

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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