Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
ABRAHAM KUYPERGod created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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,
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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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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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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.
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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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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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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.
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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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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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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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