Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
ABRAHAM KUYPERWhen the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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The 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!
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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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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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In the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord
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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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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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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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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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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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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To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
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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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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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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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