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.
ABRAHAM KUYPERIn 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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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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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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It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
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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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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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.
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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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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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… 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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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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