God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
ABRAHAM KUYPERThe seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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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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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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. 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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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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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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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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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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