… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
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 is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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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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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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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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.
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