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
ABRAHAM KUYPERAn authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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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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.
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The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel.
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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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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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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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