Abraham Kuyper Quotes

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

Only God has rights. People have duties.

Here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.

The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.

God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.

No political leader deserves the allegiance of what he never created. I can only give my allegiance to the one God. So when my President calls I don’t jump. If his call is not in accordance with the call of God, I do not answer.

Here on earth, God’s work is our own.

Whereas the glory of Almighty God and the good of mankind is the reason and the end of government ... therefore government itself is a venerable ordinance of God

Adopt the laws of God…until there is time to frame better

Those who by God are helmsmen are ordained to serve the common weal.

It is you who have called us unto this office; but being thus called we have our authority from God;

This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

I feel it's God's work to convey a message.

We’re on a mission from God.

The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.

I'd be dishonoring God if I didn't believe I was put here on Earth to help change the world.

The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.

God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.

As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.

This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken upon ourselves. We are all in this great endeavor together. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory. Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence.