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.
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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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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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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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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 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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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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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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A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good,
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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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. 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.
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It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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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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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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The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
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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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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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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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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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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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