“He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God”

To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go

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

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,

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.

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!

. 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.

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’

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.

The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.

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.

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.

And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.

The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

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