… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
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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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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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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And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
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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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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!
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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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
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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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