There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!
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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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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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
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Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life
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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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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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… 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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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