. 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.
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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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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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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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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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
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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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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of 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 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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… 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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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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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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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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