Abraham Kuyper on sovereignty
Abraham Kuyper48 quotes“An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.”
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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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,
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