There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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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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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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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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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.
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He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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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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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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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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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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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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