Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
ABRAHAM KUYPERWhatever 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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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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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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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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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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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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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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… 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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