Abraham Kuyper Quotes

The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.

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.

The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel.

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.

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.

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.

The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

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