There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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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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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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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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 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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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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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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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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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. 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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