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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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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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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The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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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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And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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