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.
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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The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
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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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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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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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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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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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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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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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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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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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. 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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Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life
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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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