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 KUYPERThe 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.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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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. 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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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
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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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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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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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