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.
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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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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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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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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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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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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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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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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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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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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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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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