… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
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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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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Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
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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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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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The question is not if the candidate’s heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
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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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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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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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