The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
ABRAHAM KUYPERNotwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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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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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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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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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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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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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.
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