Abraham Kuyper Quotes

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then 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.

When peace is injurious to the truth, peace must give way. Peace with God is of greater value than peace with men.

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

We are working for the future. We are not concerned with the seeming victory of the moment but with the final triumph. With us the question is not what influence we can exert now but what power we can exercise 50 years hence, not how few men we have today but how many will arise […]

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!’.