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
ABRAHAM KUYPERThere are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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… 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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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 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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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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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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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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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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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.
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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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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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