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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.

Abraham Kuyper

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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Conservatism Glorious Orthodoxy Pit Spurious Treacherous
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
… 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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Gratefully Hand Institution Liberty Mean Stat
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
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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Critical Faith Life Scripture Soul Through Word
Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
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Contrary Faith Lead Real Science Superstition
. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.
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Genius Gift God Grace Possessed Responsible Sovereignty
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
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
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
There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!
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Christ Domain Human Jesus Religious Sovereign Square
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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Danger Hand Personal Virtue
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
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
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
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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