black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Abraham Kuyper

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 KUYPER

Aim Employed Glory God Service Strictly
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Apply Art Faith Gift Greatest Hand Man Receive Responsibility
And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Benefit Grasp Heart React Unable
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Bible Christ Church Community Hand Impossible
There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Christ Doe Inch Jesus Mine Sphere
To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Critical Faith Life Scripture Soul Through Word
It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Established God Holy Opposition Wordly
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Christian Church Families Gift Group Jesus Responsibility
… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Gratefully Hand Institution Liberty Mean Stat
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Alive Aspiration Cold Devotion Higher Practical
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Beauty Birth Christian Flower Gave God Kind
To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Bear Bible Creation Homage Witness
Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Diagnosis Notwithstanding Rotten Social Verdict Very Yield
He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Before Constantly Face God Standing Whatsoever
We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Faith God Holy Passive Reject Silent
And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Beauty Birth Flower God Kind Trust

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Abraham Kuyper Quotes