. 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.
ABRAHAM KUYPERIt is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
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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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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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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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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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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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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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.
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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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.
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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 is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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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
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