Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
ABRAHAM KUYPERThe 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.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.
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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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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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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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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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. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.
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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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