"The destruction of
one’s own soul, or of the soul of his children or of others by example or
willful temptation, is always the spoiling of a Divine work of art, a creation
of God, which wounds him in his own handiwork, corrupting the traces of himself
in it...
"We should not poison
the soul by continuance in sin, but that we should favor it, and spare it, and
shield it from corrupting influences, because it belongs to God on the ground
that He has made it...
-- Abraham Kuyper, Near to God.
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