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.
ABRAHAM KUYPERYou must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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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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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 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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
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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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