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!'.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the belief that all aspects of life are under the authority of Christ.
Abraham Kuyper's quote emphasizes the sovereignty of Christ over every part of human existence. It conveys the idea that there is no area of life that escapes His dominion, suggesting that every moment and every aspect of the world is subject to His rule, and thus all activities and endeavors should reflect this divine ownership and purpose.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of faith in every aspect of life.
A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good, and when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.
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.
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard, you can lay a new foundation every moment. Abba Pimen said, To throw yourself before God, not to measure your progress, to leave behind all self-will; these are the instruments for the work of the soul. The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . .
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