Abraham Kuyper on Calvinism

"And because God has fully ordained such laws and ordinances for all life, therefore the Calvinist demands that all life be consecrated to His service, in strict obedience. A religion confined to the closet, the cell, or the church, therefore, Calvin abhors... God is present in all life, with the influence of His omnipresent and almighty power, and no sphere of humkan life is conceivable in which religion does not maintain its demands that God shall be praised, that God's ordinances shall be observed... Wherever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand, in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science, he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of his God."

Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1931), 53.