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 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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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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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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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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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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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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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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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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Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.
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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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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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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.
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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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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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Whatever 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.
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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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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘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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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
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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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