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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!

Abraham Kuyper

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
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Exercise Genius Irresistible Man might School Sovereign Spirit
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 KUYPER

Art Come Exist Higher Motive Notion Something
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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Alive Aspiration Cold Devotion Higher Practical
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 KUYPER

Art Business Doe Grace Science Sphere Understand
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Beauty Birth Flower God Kind Trust
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!
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Christ Domain Human Jesus Religious Sovereign Square
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Danger Hand Personal Virtue
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
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Carve Conscience Good Nation People School State
There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Christ Doe Inch Jesus Mine Sphere
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Calvinism Character Church Ecclesiastical Exclusively Lutheranism
One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me.
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Acted Escape Mind Motive Seek Sooner Spur Upon
Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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Diagnosis Notwithstanding Rotten Social Verdict Very Yield
. 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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Genius Gift God Grace Possessed Responsible Sovereignty
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Among Authority Descend Mutual Relationship Sphere
And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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Benefit Grasp Heart React Unable
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Aim Employed Glory God Service Strictly

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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