. 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 KUYPERWhatever 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.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
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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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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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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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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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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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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A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good,
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
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