God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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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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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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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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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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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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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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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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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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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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!
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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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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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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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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
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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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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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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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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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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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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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