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Top 30 Abraham Kuyper Quotes (2025 Update)

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “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!”

1. “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

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Abraham Kuyper Quote: “There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’”

2. “There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’”

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.”

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

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom; an authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.”

6. “We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom; an authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.”

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “When 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.”

7. “When 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 Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.”

9. “The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.”

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “Sun, moon, and stars beckon people to worship the Creator – until people lose sight of the living God and begin to worship the sun, moon, and stars themselves.”

11. “Sun, moon, and stars beckon people to worship the Creator – until people lose sight of the living God and begin to worship the sun, moon, and stars themselves.”

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.”

12. “To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.”

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.”

13. “Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.”

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “Though it was not right, and never can be, we understand what went on in the heart of those who sought escape from the world, in cell or hermitage, for the sake of unbroken fellowship with God. It might have been efficacious, if in withdrawing from the world they had been able to leave the world behind. But we carry it in our heart. Wherever we go it goes with us.”

14. “Though it was not right, and never can be, we understand what went on in the heart of those who sought escape from the world, in cell or hermitage, for the sake of unbroken fellowship with God. It might have been efficacious, if in withdrawing from the world they had been able to leave the world behind. But we carry it in our heart. Wherever we go it goes with us.”

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “Modern science is dominated by distrust when it comes to our own deepest sense of life, and that distrust is nothing but unbelief.”

15. “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

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.”

17. “The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.”

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.”

18. “God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.”

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?”

20. “What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?”

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “The question is not if the candidate’s heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!”

21. “The question is not if the candidate’s heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!”

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God.”

23. “Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God.”

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Abraham Kuyper Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.”

26. “We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.”

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.”

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

— Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “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;.”

28. “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

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “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.”

29. “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

Abraham Kuyper Quote: “God creates history, while people create an epic or a drama, drawn either from God’s history or from unreality and pure fiction.”

30. “God creates history, while people create an epic or a drama, drawn either from God’s history or from unreality and pure fiction.”

— Abraham Kuyper

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