Abraham Kuyper quotes

Abraham Kuyper was a Dutch minister, theologian, journalist, and statesman, who played a major role in shaping modern Dutch society. A founder of the Anti-Revolutionary Party, he greatly influenced politics, education, and religion in the Netherlands. He served as Prime Minister and championed the idea of “sphere sovereignty” in both church and state. Here are 5 of his quotes:

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

Abraham Kuyper

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Abraham Kuyper

Oh, no single piece of our mental world is to be hermetically sealed off from the rest, and there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!

Abraham Kuyper

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.

Abraham Kuyper