It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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 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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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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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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. 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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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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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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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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.
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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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… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
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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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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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