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 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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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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.
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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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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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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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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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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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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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