Abraham Kuyper Quotes

There's no such thing as an original sin.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.

Even at the cross, God permitted what he hated - the unjust and agonizing death of his own precious Son - in order to accomplish something he prized above his own Son's cruel death; that is, salvation for a world of sinners. So the world's worst murder becomes the world's only salvation.

The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistent with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins.

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

Sin is no little thing. It girded the Redeemer’s head with thorns, and pierced his heart . . . Look upon all sin as that which crucified the Saviour, and you will see it to be ‘exceeding sinful’.

I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God. There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!