There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
ABRAHAM KUYPERThere is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me.
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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 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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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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How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye
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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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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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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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