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 KUYPERHe 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.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life
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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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. 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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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.
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