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.
ABRAHAM KUYPERAnd there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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The question is not if the candidate’s heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
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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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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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 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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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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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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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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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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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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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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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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… 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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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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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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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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