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.
ABRAHAM KUYPERDo not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.
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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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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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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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And when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.
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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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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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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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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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