Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
ABRAHAM KUYPERAnd 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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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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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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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The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
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… 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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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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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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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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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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