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 KUYPERThe 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.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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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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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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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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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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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
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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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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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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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… 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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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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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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