God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
ABRAHAM KUYPER
ABRAHAM KUYPER
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Abraham Kuyper48 quotes“God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.”
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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.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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 KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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.
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper 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!
Abraham KuyperAbraham Kuyper . 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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Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.
Imam AliImam Ali When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.
Harriet TubmanHarriet Tubman A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
Leo BuscagliaLeo Buscaglia I don”t know if I like communism, and I don”t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony My hand tells me what I’m thinking.
Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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