Abraham Kuyper Quotes

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

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.

To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go

Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?

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,

. 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.

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!

On the other hand … by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state.

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’