Abraham Kuyper Quotes

Netherlands, Journalist
October 29, 1837 – November, 8, 1920.

Abraham Kuijper (29 October 1837 – 8 November 1920), generally known as Abraham Kuyper, was Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist theologian and also a journalist. He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands.

Also known as Theologian, Politician, University Teacher

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
- Life
- Alone
- Single
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

Abraham Kuyper
- Our
- Conservatism
- Bury

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
- World
- Single
- Rest
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
- Faith
- Peace
- Friend
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Abraham Kuyper
- Like
- Existence
- Poor