God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
ABRAHAM KUYPERWhat is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
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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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The question is not if the candidate’s heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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.
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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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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me.
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And when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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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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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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On the other hand … by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state.
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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.
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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 one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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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.
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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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