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.
ABRAHAM KUYPERLutheranism 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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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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… 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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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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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