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Abraham Kuyper Biography

Abraham Kuijper (/ˈkaɪpər/; Dutch: [ˈaːbraːɦɑm ˈkœypər]; 29 October 1837 – 8 November 1920), generally known as Abraham Kuyper, was Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist theologian and also a 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-supported Dutch Reformed Church.

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

Bury, Conservatism, Orthodoxy, Pits

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, Mine!

Cry, Existence, Jesus, Religious, Sovereign, Squares

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.

Contrary, Degrees, Faith, Mistaken, Real

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 life.

Calvinism, Character, Church, Life, Restricted, Theological

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 whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.

Church, Community, Frequently, Hand, Hands, Riches

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

Grasp, Have Faith, Scripture, Soul, Word

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

Holy, Passive, Reject, Silent

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!

Christianity, Heart, Names, Point, Speaks Out, Starting

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 are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.

Christian, Church, Greatest, Jesus, Seriousness

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. 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.

Directly, Doe, God, Individual, Rules, Spheres

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. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

Become, Fire, Lay, Running, Sin, Winning

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.

Art, Faith, Man, Men, Service, World

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

Goal, God, Ultimate, Unity, Way

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

Body, Hell, Soul, Works

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.

Art, Motive, Nobler, Notion

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

Austerity, Church, Churches, Poor, Relations, Seminaries

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 benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. . . . . 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.

Age, Art, Century, Died, Soul, Unable

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 than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, 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, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God

Creation, Home, Mind, Passion, School, Spur

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

Doe, Jesus, Life, Say, Spheres

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 beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.

Beauty, Christian, Flower, Gives, God, Withers

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