Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
ABRAHAM KUYPERThe 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.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.
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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel.
ABRAHAM KUYPERThe sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel.
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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
ABRAHAM KUYPERIn 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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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
ABRAHAM KUYPERUnchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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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. 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 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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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
ABRAHAM KUYPERDo not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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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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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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