On the Church Quotes

“Alas, (and now I come to the second part of my address) we have disrupted this beautiful order. By our guilt the earthly fatherland is no longer oriented toward the heavenly but stands constantly in opposition to it. And according to the rule of the optimi corruptio pessima6 (that is, that the holy, by forsaking its calling, falls the more deeply into sin), human willfulness has time and again forged weapons from the precious ore of our earthly fatherland to fight against the heavenly. And if it were possible, it would erase the memory of [the heavenly fatherland] from the minds of the peoples.”
― Abraham Kuyper, On the Church

“And so God’s children will receive more than paradise, because all division and separation of the peoples will come to an end in that better fatherland. What existed before the flood, what the sinners intended by building the tower of Babel, and what, even today, Cosmopolitanism and the Internationalists pursue with their false ideals, will be realized there. There “all kingdoms have become the Lord’s” [see Rev 11:15]. There will be one fatherland common to all, and the prophetic image of Pentecost—Parthians and Elamites, Cretans and Arabians with one voice bringing praise to the Eternal One—will be an abiding reality there.”
― Abraham Kuyper, On the Church