There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, 'This is mine!'
Abraham KuyperThe seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
Abraham KuyperThe 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 KuyperThere is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'
Abraham KuyperWhen 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.
Abraham KuyperCalvinism 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