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!
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 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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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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The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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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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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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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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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And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.
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It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
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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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