Abraham Kuyper Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and…
• 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…
• 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…
• God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
• 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…
• What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
• 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…
• There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a…
• 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…
• One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner…
• The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they…
• Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
• Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier…
• He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
• The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the…
• There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry,…
• To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

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