Quotes from Abraham Kuyper

When God says to me, "obey," then I humbly bow my head, without compromising in the least my personal dignity, as a man.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

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

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!

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.

The other parties campaign for parliamentary seats, more or less. We campaign for our principles!

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

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.

Finally Modernism, which denies and abolishes every difference, cannot rest until it has made woman man and man woman, and, putting every distinction on a common level, kills life by placing it under the ban of uniformity.

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

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.

God creates history, while people create an epic or a drama, drawn either from God's history or from unreality and pure fiction.