The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity. Abraham Kuyper More Quotes by Abraham Kuyper More Quotes From Abraham Kuyper 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 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 soul age art We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith. Abraham Kuyper passive silent holy ... we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation.... On the other hand ... by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state. Abraham Kuyper liberty mean hands There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, 'This is mine!' Abraham Kuyper squares doe jesus What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul? Abraham Kuyper hell body soul 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 superstitions real faith 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 yield eye age Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God. Abraham Kuyper unity goal way 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. Abraham Kuyper spheres individual doe 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 political religious order In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine Abraham Kuyper
