Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
ABRAHAM KUYPERIt is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of 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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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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To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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In the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord
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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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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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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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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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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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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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