Abraham Kuyper Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Character, Church, Calvinism

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

• It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Hands, Community, Church

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Religious, Order, Political

• The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Christian, Jesus, Church

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

  Abraham Kuyper

  Church, Austerity, Poor

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