He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
ABRAHAM KUYPERIt 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.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.
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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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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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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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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, 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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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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. 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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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
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