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.
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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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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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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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
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On the other hand … by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state.
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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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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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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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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower.
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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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