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.
ABRAHAM KUYPERLutheranism 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.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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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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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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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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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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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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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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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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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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 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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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