Abraham Kuyper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Christ
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.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Running #Winning #Fire
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!
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Squares #Sovereign #Doe
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
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Passion #Home #School
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.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Hands #Community #Church
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, and when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Christian #Cancer #Lying
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.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Faith #Art #Men
What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Soul #Body #Hell
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 on the whole condition of human life. 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.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#School #Exercise #Men
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.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Flower #Men #Two
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.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Art #Motive #Notion
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.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Christian #Jesus #Church
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Pits #Orthodoxy #Conservatism
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 the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Dark #Glasses #Light
God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Heart #Hands #World
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.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Character #Church #Calvinism
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!
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Heart #Names #Speak
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 eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Eye #Yield #Age
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.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Faith #Real #Degrees
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Religious #Order #Political
To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Soul #Have Faith #Scripture
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 world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#World #Flight #Should
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.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Art #Soul #Age

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