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.
ABRAHAM KUYPERWe cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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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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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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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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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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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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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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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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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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