There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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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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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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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 seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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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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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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