Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
ABRAHAM KUYPERWhen 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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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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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And when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.
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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.
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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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