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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.

Abraham Kuyper

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
There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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Creation Cry Doe Entire Jesus Mine Square
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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Cancer Christian Free Guilty Love Lying Money Only
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
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
Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand – in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science.
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Apply Art Faith Gift Greatest Hand Man Receive Responsibility
One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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Desire Home Mind Motive Passion Ruling School Spur
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
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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Best Friend Friendship God Near Pushes
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
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
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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Define Doe Individual Mutual Relationship Spheres State
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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Established God Holy Opposition Wordly
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
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

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