He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
ABRAHAM KUYPERThe seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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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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One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me.
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