Abraham Kuyper Quotes

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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Doe Grace Sphere
Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
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Idea Plagiarsing Solely
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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Calvinism Church Ecclesiastical Exclusively Lutheranism
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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Christian Gave
Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand – in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science.
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Apply Greatest Hand Responsibility
An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Sovereignty
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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Changing External Frequenting Impure
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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Employed Strictly
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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Dark Diamond Glasses Piece Scripture Strike
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.
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Bible Christ Church Community Hand

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