Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuijper, generally known as Abraham Kuyper, was a Dutch journalist, statesman and Neo-Calvinist theologian. He was a master organiser. He founded a new church, a newspaper, the Free University of Amsterdam, and the Anti-Revolutionary Party. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905. In religious affairs, he sought to adapt the Dutch Reformed Church to the challenges posed by the loss of state financial aid and by religious pluralism, rising nationalism, and the Arminian religious...
christ
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
running winning fire
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.
orthodoxy pits conservatism
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
heart speaks-out names
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!
heart hands world
God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
home school passion
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
christian jesus church
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.
jesus squares doe
There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, 'This is mine!'
mean hands liberty
... 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.
ideas sin
Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
soul have-faith scripture
To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
jesus doe spheres
There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'