… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
ABRAHAM KUYPERWe 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
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of 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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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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On the other hand … by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state.
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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas 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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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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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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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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