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The standard in the final judgment will in the first place be the gospel (John 12:48); but that gospel is not opposed to, and cannot even be conceived apart from the law. The requirement to believe, after all, is itself grounded in the law, and the Gospel is the restoration and fulfillment of the law.”

Herman Bavinck –Dutch Reformed Theologian
Vol 4 Reformed Dogmatics –pg. 700

“Give what you have; to someone it may be better than you dare to think.” Longfellow

Rise again, ye lion-hearted, saints of early Christendom.
Whither is your strength departed, wither gone your martyrdom?
Lo, love’s light is on them, glory’s flame upon them
And their will to die doth quell, even the lord and prince of hell.

“The religious life does have its own content and an independent value. It remains the center, the heart, the hearth, out of which all his [i.e., the Christian’s] thought and action proceeds and from which it receives inspiration and warmth. There, in fellowship w/ God, he is strengthened for his labor and girds himself for the battle. But that hidden life of fellowship w/ God is not the whole of life. The prayer room is the inner chamber, but not the whole dwelling in which he lives and moves. The spiritual life does not exclude domestic and civic, social, and political life, the life of art and scholarship. To be sure, it is distant from these things. It also transcends them by far in value, but it does not constitute an irreconcilable opposition to them; rather, it is the power that enables us to faithfully fulfill our earthly vocation and makes all of life a serving of God.” --Herman Bavinck