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 KUYPERHe is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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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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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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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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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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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We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom
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