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!
ABRAHAM KUYPERThe seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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. 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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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 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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It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
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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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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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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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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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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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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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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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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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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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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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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