One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
ABRAHAM KUYPERAn authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
-
-
God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
ABRAHAM KUYPER -
He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
ABRAHAM KUYPER -
Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
ABRAHAM KUYPER -
An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
ABRAHAM KUYPER -
On the other hand … by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state.
ABRAHAM KUYPER -
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER -
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 -
To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
ABRAHAM KUYPER -
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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER -
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
ABRAHAM KUYPER -
The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
ABRAHAM KUYPER -
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 -
Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
ABRAHAM KUYPER -
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower.
ABRAHAM KUYPER -
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
ABRAHAM KUYPER