There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
ABRAHAM KUYPERAnd, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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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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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!
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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to 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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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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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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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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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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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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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.
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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel.
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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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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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.
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