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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.

Abraham Kuyper

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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Body Hell Other Realm Restraint Soul
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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Candidate Christ Heart Name Out Speaks Starting
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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Define Doe Individual Mutual Relationship Spheres State
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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Carve Conscience Good Nation People School State
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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Age Art Barren Dominating Emotion Intellectualism Money Reduce Soul Unchecked
He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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Before Constantly Face God Standing Whatsoever
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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Allow Christian Guilt Hidden Nothing Storehouse
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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Conviction Dearest Enemy Faith Lay Price
One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me.
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Acted Escape Mind Motive Seek Sooner Spur Upon
In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.
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Alive Aspiration Cold Devotion Higher Practical
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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Battle Condition Fire Principle Run Running Winning
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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Dark Diamond Glasses Light Piece Scripture Soon Strike
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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Calvinism Character Church Ecclesiastical Exclusively Lutheranism
An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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Allow Authority Follow Respect Sovereignty State
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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Exercise Genius Irresistible Man might School Sovereign Spirit
To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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Bear Bible Creation Homage Witness

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