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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.

Abraham Kuyper

And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Benefit Grasp Heart React Unable
We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Faith God Holy Passive Reject Silent
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Allow Christian Guilt Hidden Nothing Storehouse
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Battle Condition Fire Principle Run Running Winning
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Aim Employed Glory God Service Strictly
It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Changing External Frequenting Impure World
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Conservatism Glorious Orthodoxy Pit Spurious Treacherous
To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Bear Bible Creation Homage Witness
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 KUYPER

Define Doe Individual Mutual Relationship Spheres State
Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Diagnosis Notwithstanding Rotten Social Verdict Very Yield
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Apply Art Faith Gift Greatest Hand Man Receive Responsibility
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 KUYPER

Candidate Christ Heart Name Out Speaks Starting
. 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

Genius Gift God Grace Possessed Responsible Sovereignty
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Age Drawn Empire External Eye Golden Parallel Yield
There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Christ Doe Inch Jesus Mine Sphere
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 KUYPER

Art Business Doe Grace Science Sphere Understand

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