And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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.
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Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand – in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science.
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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 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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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!
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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 sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel.
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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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