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Abraham Kuyper48 quotes“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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Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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 KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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!
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper . 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.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper In 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.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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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