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 KUYPERWhatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand – in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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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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The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
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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
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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It 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.
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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.
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