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.
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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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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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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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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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On the other hand … by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state.
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The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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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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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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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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. 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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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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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