Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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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.
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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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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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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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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin.
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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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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.
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There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower.
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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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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
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