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
ABRAHAM KUYPERThere is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life
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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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You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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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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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good,
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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.
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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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… 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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. 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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my 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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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