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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’

Abraham Kuyper

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
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 seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Austerity Church Existence Poor Prolonging Relation
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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Before Constantly Face God Standing Whatsoever
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
Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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God Idea Live Plagiarsing Sin Solely
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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Best Friend Friendship God Near Pushes
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

There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’

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