Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
ABRAHAM KUYPERThe 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.
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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 impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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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 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 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, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God
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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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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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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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… 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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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’
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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
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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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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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