Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
ABRAHAM KUYPER- It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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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.
ABRAHAM KUYPERIn 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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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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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
ABRAHAM KUYPERThe seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
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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
ABRAHAM KUYPERWe 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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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 KUYPERThe 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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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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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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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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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.
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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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