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,
ABRAHAM KUYPERAnd 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.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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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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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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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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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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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