… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
ABRAHAM KUYPERHow 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
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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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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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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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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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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘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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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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