There Is Not An Inch Of Any

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.

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.

There Is Not An Inch Of Any Sphere Of Life Over Which Jesus Christ Does Not Say, 'mine.'

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.

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 - He Is, In Whatsoever It May Be, Constantly Standing Before The Face Of God. 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.