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.
ABRAHAM KUYPERThere 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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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to 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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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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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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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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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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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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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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