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
ABRAHAM KUYPERThe greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.
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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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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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. 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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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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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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It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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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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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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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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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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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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… 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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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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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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