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How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye

Abraham Kuyper

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.
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Dark Diamond Glasses Light Piece Scripture Soon Strike
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
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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Best Friend Friendship God Near Pushes
We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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Faith God Holy Passive Reject Silent
He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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Before Constantly Face God Standing Whatsoever
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
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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Candidate Christ Heart Name Out Speaks Starting
Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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God Idea Live Plagiarsing Sin Solely
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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Changing External Frequenting Impure World
And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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Benefit Grasp Heart React Unable
… 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
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
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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Bible Christ Church Community Hand Impossible
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
God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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Creation Hand Head Heart Mysticism World

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye

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