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• Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.

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  Goal, Unity, Way

  Abraham Kuyper, James D. Bratt (1998). “Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader”, p.21, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Church, Austerity, Poor

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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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  Heart, Hands, World

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.188, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... 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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  Art, Soul, Age

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.143, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

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  Religious, Order, Political

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• 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. 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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  Doe, Spheres, Individual

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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, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

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  Eye, Yield, Age

  Abraham Kuyper (2009). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

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