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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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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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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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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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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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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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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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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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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