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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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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But within these spheres … another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.
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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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… 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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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 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.
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There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!
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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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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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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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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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