Abraham Kuyper Quotes

Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point.

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

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.

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.

It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home

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

He is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye

And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.