… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
ABRAHAM KUYPERIn 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
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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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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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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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. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.
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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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