Abraham Kuyper
Against all such efforts the words of the Psalmist are ever in force: In Thy light shall we see light, and also the words of Christ: Neither doth any know the Father save the Son, and he to whomever the Son willeth to reveal him. Presently your demonstration may have a place in your theological studies of the knowledge that is revealed, and in your inferences derived from it for the subject and the cosmos; but, observation or demonstration can never produce one single milligramme of religious gold. The entire gold-mine of religion lies in the self-revelation of this central power to the subject, and the subject has no other means than faith by which to appropriate to itself the gold from this mine. He who has no certainty in himself on the ground of this faith, about some point or other in religion, can never be made certain by demonstration or argument. In this way you may produce outward religiousness, but never religion of the heart.
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