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.
ABRAHAM KUYPEREvery 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.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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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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… 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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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 cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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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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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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How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye
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It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
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