… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
ABRAHAM KUYPERIn 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.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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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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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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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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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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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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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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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