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.
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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… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom
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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.
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It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
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There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin.
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