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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.

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
There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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Creation Cry Doe Entire Jesus Mine Square
One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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Desire Home Mind Motive Passion Ruling School Spur
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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Cancer Christian Free Guilty Love Lying Money Only
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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Flight Longer Monastic Life Rest Sinful Upon World
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
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
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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Among Authority Descend Mutual Relationship Sphere
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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Art Come Exist Higher Motive Notion Something
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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Apply Art Faith Gift Greatest Hand Man Receive Responsibility
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
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
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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Beauty Birth Flower God Kind Trust
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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Changing External Frequenting Impure World
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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Bible Christ Church Community Hand Impossible
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

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