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 KUYPERWhat is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
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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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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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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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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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