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Abraham Kuyper

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[Wikipedia] Abraham Kuyper was the prime minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, and an influential neo-Calvinist pastor and journalist. He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which upon its foundation became the second largest Reformed denomination in the country behind the state-s

Quotes by Abraham Kuyper · Page 2

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

Christ

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Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in…

Agriculture

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Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form…

Calvinism

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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…

Abuse

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It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of…

Bible

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“...Calvinism has a sharply-defined starting-point of its own for the three fundamental relations of all human existence: viz., our relation to God,…

Calvinism

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The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even…

Christ

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

Holy

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

Deeds

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

Age

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The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic…

Curse

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Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.

Goal

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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler,…

Art

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

Austerity

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“That Christ's Baptism was not a mere form, but the fulfilling of all righteousness, proves that He descended into the water burdened…

Justice

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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, 'This is mine!'

Creation

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