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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,

Abraham Kuyper

It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Established God Holy Opposition Wordly
And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Benefit Grasp Heart React Unable
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Aim Employed Glory God Service Strictly
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Apply Art Faith Gift Greatest Hand Man Receive Responsibility
We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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Faith God Holy Passive Reject Silent
One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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Desire Home Mind Motive Passion Ruling School Spur
There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Christ Doe Inch Jesus Mine Sphere
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye
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Age Drawn Empire External Eye Golden Parallel Yield
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 KUYPER

Flight Longer Monastic Life Rest Sinful Upon World
You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Conviction Dearest Enemy Faith Lay Price
The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Austerity Church Existence Poor Prolonging Relation
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Acted Escape Mind Motive Seek Sooner Spur Upon
To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Critical Faith Life Scripture Soul Through Word
The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Christian Church Families Gift Group Jesus Responsibility
There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Creation Cry Doe Entire Jesus Mine Square
Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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Diagnosis Notwithstanding Rotten Social Verdict Very Yield

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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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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