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!
ABRAHAM KUYPERTo have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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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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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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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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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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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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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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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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