Abraham Kuyper Doe Quotations

The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

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.

There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, 'This is mine!'

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'

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!