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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?

Abraham Kuyper

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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Changing External Frequenting Impure World
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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Contrary Faith Lead Real Science Superstition
The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Austerity Church Existence Poor Prolonging Relation
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
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
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
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
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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Aim Employed Glory God Service Strictly
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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Best Friend Friendship God Near Pushes
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
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Dark Diamond Glasses Light Piece Scripture Soon Strike
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
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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Exercise Genius Irresistible Man might School Sovereign Spirit
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Among Authority Descend Mutual Relationship Sphere
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
Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Diagnosis Notwithstanding Rotten Social Verdict Very Yield

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