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 KUYPERIt is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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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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We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom
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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 is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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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 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.
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
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