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.
ABRAHAM KUYPERIn 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.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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.
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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.
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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good,
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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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In the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord
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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower.
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
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