One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.One high motive has
acted like a spur upon my mindand 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, 1897.
Freedom is in danger precisely when citizens lack pride and the state
lacks bounds. - Abraham Kuyper, Christianity and the Class Struggle
All (the gospel) asks is unlimited freedom to develop in accordance
with its own genius in the heart of our national life.We do not want
the government to hand over unbelief hancuffed and chained as though
for a spiritual execution. We prefer that the power of the gospel
overcome that demon in free combat with comparable weapons. Only this
we do not want: that the government arm unbelief to force us, half
armed and handicapped by an assortment of laws, into an unequal
struggle with so powerful an enemy. - Abraham Kuyper, Maranathan in
Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader, J Bratt p.224-5
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
Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God-Abraham Kuyper,
Uniformity:The Curse of Modern Life
Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.- Abraham Kuyper,
Uniformity:The Curse of Modern Life
A free church, a hol;y nation - Abraham Kuyper
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
When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to
win the day, then 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
Š we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution
of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation.ŠOn the
other hand Š 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 (1837-1920)
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 Š 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 (1837-1920)
We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and
so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to
the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom; an
authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty
of the State does.
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)Calvinism, London, 1932, p. 143
God,is present in all life, with the influence of His omnipresent and
almighty power, and no sphere of human life is conceivable in which
religion does not maintain its demands that God shall be praised,
that God's ordinances shall be observed, and that every labora shall
be permeated with its ora in fervent and ceaseless prayer. Wherever
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 his 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 (1837-1920)Calvinism, London, 1932, p. 89,90
.
We are working for the future. We are not concerned with the seeming
victory of the moment but with the final triumph. With us the
question is not what influence we can exert now but what power we can
exercise 50 years hence, not how few men we have today but how many
will arise out of the younger generation who will be men of our
principles. We know how to practice patience. We know that the fruit
cannot be plucked before the harvest time has arrived. Yet we also
know that the hour of victory will some day come.
Abraham Kuyper 1869, in Abraham Kuyper a Biography, Fank Vanden Berg,
Paideia Press, 1978. p 48.
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a
spurious conservatism.
Abraham Kuyper, Sermon, Conservatism and Orthodoxy, Utrecht, 31 July
1870, in Abraham Kuyper a Biography, Fank Vanden Berg, Paideia Press,
1978.p 49.
God has spoken.
There is a revelation of His will which we have in God's Word. On
this basis we demand that the pronouncement of God's Word be obeyed
in each clash of principles. Human interference or discretion is only
to be decisive where God's word is unclear.
Everyone agrees that human insight must yield to God's
pronouncements.The disagreement begins because our opponents do not
believe God Himself has spoken while we confess that He has spoken.
Abraham Kuyper, The Standard, 7 June 1873
Politicophobia is not Calvinistic, is not Christian, is not ethical.
Abraham Kuyper 1869, in Abraham Kuyper a Biography, Fank Vanden Berg,
Paideia Press, 1978.p 48
.
The source of sovereign authority is found in God alone and not in
the will of the people nor in human law.
Anti-Revolutionary Party of The Netherlands, 3 April 1879, in The
Practice of Political Spirituality, McKendree R Langley, Paedeia Pres
1984, p27
Satan knows that he can undermine the structure of the church by
slyly removing just one fundamental doctrine at a time. He frequently
loosens a large foundation gradually, chiseling it away bit by bit.
That is why tolerance for the sake of peace may be dangerous. One
step by giving in will lead to a next step, and will not God visit us
with blindness if we deliberately darken the truth He has graciously
entrusted to us. How shall we justify ourselves if we permit even a
little of the truth to be laid aside? Is that ours to do? When peace
is injurious to the truth, peace must give way. Peace with God is of
greater value than peace with men.. -- Abraham Kuyper
We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word
and our holy faith.-- Abraham Kuyper, Confidentie, p72.
If God is and remains Sovereign, then art can work no enchantment
except in keeping with the ordinances which God ordained for the
beautiful, when He, as the Supreme Artist, called this world into
existence. And further, if God is and remains Sovereign, then He also
imparts these artistic gifts to whom He will, first even to Cain's,
and not to Abel's posterity; not as if art were Cainitic, but in
order that he who has sinned away the highest gifts, should at least,
as Calvin so beautifully says, in the lesser gifts of art have some
testimony of the Divine bounty."
Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,
1987), pp. 155-156.
Romanists, Lutherans, Arminians, and Libertines have ever charged
against Calvinism that its absolute doctrine of predestination,
culminating in the perseverance of the saints, must necessarily
result in a too easy conscience and a dangerous laxity of morals. But
Calvinism answers this charge, not by opposing reasoning against
reasoning, but by putting a fact of world-wide reputation over
against this false deduction of fictitious consequences. It simply
asks: "What rival moral fruits have other religions to oppose if we
point to the high moral earnestness of the Puritans?" "Shall we
continue in sin that grace may abound?" is the old diabolical whisper
which the evil spirit hurled against the Holy Apostle himself in the
childhood of the Christian Church. -Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on
Calvinism (1898)
It is noteworthy that the process of human development steadily
proceeds with those groups whose historic characteristic is not
isolation but the commingling of blood. On the whole the Mongolian
race has held itself apart, and in its isolation has bestowed no
benefits upon our race at large. Behind the Himalayas a similar life
secluded itself, and hence failed to impart any permanent impulse to
the outside world. Even in Europe we find that with the Scandinavians
and Slavs there was hardly any intermingling of blood, and,
consequently having failed to develop a richer type, they have taken
little part in the general development of human life.- Abraham
Kuyper,Lectures on Calvinism p.22
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