Showing posts with label Abraham Kuyper. Show all posts
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Abraham Kuyper on Sanctification

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 5:30 AM

"Sanctification is God's work in us, whereby He imparts to our members a holy disposition, inwardly filling us with delight in His law and with repugnance to sin. But good works are acts of man, which spring from this holy disposition. Hence sanctification is the source of good works, the lamp that shall shine with their light, the capital of which they are the interest."

Abraham Kuyper


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Abraham Kuyper on Works

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 5:18 AM

"God wills that men should see our good works and glorify the Father which is in heaven. Therefore God has prepared good works that we should walk in them."

Abraham Kuyper


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Abraham Kuyper on Sanctification

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 5:30 AM

“It should be emphasized that sanctification does not imply human efforts and exertions to supplement Christ's work: but it is the additional grace of creating in the saint supernaturally a holy disposition.”

Abraham Kuyper


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Abraham Kuyper on Creation

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“The whole creation is nothing but the visible curtain behind which radiates the exalted working of this divine thinking.”

Abraham Kuyper


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Abraham Kuyper on Beauty

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 5:30 AM

“There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.”

Abraham Kuyper


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Abraham Kuyper on Faith and Science

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 5:30 AM

"Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not."

Abraham Kuyper


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Abraham Kuyper on Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“Sin always acts so:  it puts the stamp of God’s image on its counterfeit currency and misuses its God given powers to imitate God’s activity.  Itself powerless, without creative ideas of it’s own, sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God.”

Abraham Kuyper


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Abraham Kuyper on Friends

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 6:32 AM

“He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.”

Abraham Kuyper


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Abraham Kuyper on Modernism

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 5:30 AM

“Far more precious to us than even the development of human life, is the crown which ennobles it, and this noble crown of life for you and for me rests in the Christian name. That crown is our common heritage. It was not from Greece or Rome that the regeneration of human life came forth;—that mighty metamorphosis dates from Bethlehem and Golgotha; and if the Reformation, in a still more special sense, claims the love of our hearts, it is because it has dispelled the clouds of sacerdotalism, and has unveiled again to fullest view the glories of the Cross. But, in deadly opposition to this Christian element, against the very Christian name, and against its salutiferous influence in every sphere of life, the storm of Modernism has now arisen with violent intensity.”

Abraham Kuyper


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Abraham Kuyper on Care for Others

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at 5:30 AM

“Where our Father in heaven wills with divine generosity that an abundance of food grows from the ground, we are without excuse if, through our fault, this rich bounty is divided so unequally that one is surfeited with bread while another goes with an empty stomach to his pallet, and sometimes must even go without a pallet.”

Abraham Kuyper


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Abraham Kuyper on Giving and Charity

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, December 9, 2013 at 6:30 AM

" If then you ask me whether still more ought to be given. I answer without hesitation, most certainly. But I hasten to add that a charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good, and when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways."
Abraham Kuyper


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Abraham Kuyper on Spheres of Authority

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 8:00 AM


“Virtually all the modern world’s ills come down to this: even the state was claiming authority, that was not the state’s or was abdicating authority where it had legitimate authority. All the ills of the modern world comes down to this: the church has not had the background (some have this as "backbone") to stand against the state. The family has been left unprotected and parental prerogatives has been stolen so that society as God had intended it is no longer able to function under the Lordship of Christ and therefore, new principles and new ideas and new authorities and new sovereignties and new messiahs had been raised up in Christ’s stead.”
Abraham Kuyper


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Abraham Kuyper on Life

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"Henceforth 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


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Abraham Kuyper on Serving God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 10:00 AM

"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


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Abraham Kuyper on Your Soul

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, November 12, 2010 at 9:00 AM

"Because God has made your soul, there is something in it of God Himself, a divine stamp has been impressed upon you; there is something of God's power, thought, and creative genius in you, as in no other.  You are one of the Lord's own works of art, precisely like which He created none other."

~Abraham Kuyper~


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Abraham Kuyper on Works

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 9:00 AM

"Whatever man may be, works always proceed from him; and since works are never neutral, but either conform or do not conform to the divine law, it follows that every man's works are either good or evil, actual sins (peccata actualia) or good works."
Abraham Kuyper



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Abraham Kuyper on Sanctification and Works

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, September 3, 2010 at 9:00 AM

"In the saint there is life; from that life workings proceed; and those workings are either good or evil. Hence good works are not added to sanctification for mere effect, but belong to it. The discussion of sanctification is not complete without the discussion of Good Works."
Abraham Kuyper

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Abraham Kuyper on Works

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 10:00 AM

"Good works are the ripe fruit from the tree which God has planted in sanctification."
Abraham Kuyper
(from: The Work of the Holy Spirit)


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Abraham Kuyper on Faith and Science

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 9:38 AM

"Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not."
Abraham Kuyper

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Abraham Kuyper on Convictions

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM

"When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battles is your calling, 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


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