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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.

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.

To Have Faith In The Word, Scripture Must Not Grasp Us In Our Critical Thought, But In The Life Of The Soul.

There Are Two Kinds Of Beauty; There Is A Beauty Which God Gives At Birth, And Which Withers As A Flower. 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.

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.