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.
ABRAHAM KUYPERThere 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!
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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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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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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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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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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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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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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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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