The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
ABRAHAM KUYPERThe 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!
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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, 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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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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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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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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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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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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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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