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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.

Abraham Kuyper

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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Battle Condition Fire Principle Run Running Winning
We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Art Business Doe Grace Science Sphere Understand
There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Creation Cry Doe Entire Jesus Mine Square
What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Body Hell Other Realm Restraint Soul
To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Critical Faith Life Scripture Soul Through Word
An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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Allow Authority Follow Respect Sovereignty State
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Alive Aspiration Cold Devotion Higher Practical
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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Best Friend Friendship God Near Pushes
Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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Diagnosis Notwithstanding Rotten Social Verdict Very Yield
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
He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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Before Constantly Face God Standing Whatsoever
… 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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Gratefully Hand Institution Liberty Mean Stat
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Bible Christ Church Community Hand Impossible
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Danger Hand Personal Virtue
The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Christian Church Families Gift Group Jesus Responsibility
To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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Bear Bible Creation Homage Witness

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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