Quotes about Life
Every State-formation, every assertion of the power of the magistrate, every mechanical means of compelling order and of guaranteeing a safe course of life is therefore always something unnatural;
— Abraham Kuyper
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
But "To Be Near Unto God" in the midst of busy avocations yields its sweetest blessedness when it is cultivated in the face of sin and the world, as an oasis in the desert of life.
— Abraham Kuyper
For, indeed, without sin there would have been neither magistrate nor state-order; but political life, in its entirety, would have evolved itself, after a patriarchal fashion, from the life of the family.
— Abraham Kuyper
Modern science is dominated by distrust when it comes to our own deepest sense of life, and that distrust is nothing but unbelief.
— Abraham Kuyper
Kuyper notes that the scholar is distinct in setting the scope of his stewardship on the mind itself. "Not merely to live," he writes, "but to know that you live and how you live, and how things around you live, and how all that hangs together and lives out of the one efficient cause that proceeds from God's power and wisdom.
— Abraham Kuyper
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.
— Abraham Kuyper
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
— Abraham Lincoln
And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
— Abraham Lincoln
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
— Abraham Lincoln
I'm passionate about my fans and my shows. But my biggest reward in the success that is my life are my husband and kids.
— Celine Dion
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
— Euripides