Wisdom and Wonder Quotes

“Sun, moon, and stars beckon people to worship the Creator—until people lose sight of the living God and begin to worship the sun, moon, and stars themselves.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art

“Art cannot be excused from following God’s law, and art disgraces itself by seeking that freedom. Anything that cannot be put into an image or onto a canvas without demanding the sacrifice of modesty or injuring shame must simply be eschewed. Art is not autonomous. Art is one of the more refined human life expressions, and all these life expressions are organically related and stand continuously under God’s ordinance.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art

“God creates history, while people create an epic or a drama, drawn either from God’s history or from unreality and pure fiction.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art

“Modern science is dominated by distrust when it comes to our own deepest sense of life, and that distrust is nothing but unbelief.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art

“it may never be said that like the state and the church, science arose because of sin and thus from an intervening grace.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art

“Conversely, our duty is that we who confess Jesus Christ take hold of science as an instrument for propagating our faith-conviction.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art

“Much less may believers retreat to their ecclesiastical corner and, satisfied with simply having faith, abandon the building of the temple of science to unbelievers, as though science does not concern them.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art

“Nevertheless, in whatever form idolatrous religion appeared, precisely because it was derived from the external, and increasingly lost the factor of spiritual revelation, it could develop in no other way than in visible forms.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art

“For whatever sets in motion societal activity originates in the intimate communal living of families in the same village or hamlet, in the same region or country.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art