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.
ABRAHAM KUYPER… we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation….
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
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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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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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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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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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