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.
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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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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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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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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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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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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Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand – in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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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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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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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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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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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