“157Openly or secretly all turn back to an inborn disposition, to a religio insita.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“It is supernaturalism, which in point of fact forms the point of controversy between Christianity and many panegyrists of modern culture.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“This will of God forms the heart of pure religion and at the same time the soul of all true theology.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“religious experience is neither the source nor the foundation of religious truth;” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Christian religion cannot abandon this supernaturalism without annihilating itself.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
The gospel is the food of faith... God saves by causing Himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ. — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The cross is the divine settlement with the divine condemnation of sin.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The truth and value of Christianity do not depend on the fruits which it has borne for civilization and culture: it has… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“gospel is in the Old and the New Testament alike the core of the divine revelation, the essence of religion, the sum… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“conversion means a religious and moral change in man, by which he gives up his sinful ways and learns to know, love,… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The highest ideal for the Christian is not to make peace with the world, with science, with culture at any price, but… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“if sin bears an ethical character, then redemption is possible, and conversion is in principle the conquest of sin, the death of… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Christ is not the founder of Christianity, nor the first confessor of it, nor the first Christian. But he is Christianity itself,… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“262The Gospel is so rich, and the salvation purchased by Christ contains so many and diverse benefits, that the most varied needs… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of evolution thus takes the place of the old religion in the modern man.320It is no science; it does not… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The Gospel is sheer good tidings, not demand but promise, not duty but gift. But in order that as promise and gift… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of the Christian religion as has been so often shown and acknowledged even by opponents,248 lies in the person of… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“All religion is supernatural, and rests upon the presupposition that God is distinct from the world and yet works in the world.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“the plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“All worldviews, therefore, end in an eschatology and all efforts at reformation are animated by faith in the future.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The cross of Christ divides history into two parts — the preparation for and the accomplishment of reconciliation;” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“No psychology of religion can teach us what conversion is and ought to be; the Scriptures alone can tell us that.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“If there is no infallible Scripture "there can exist only a subjective and purely individual notion of what belongs to Christian faith."… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Christ is not the founder of Christianity, nor the first confessor of it, nor the first Christian. But he is Christianity itself, in its… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
“Man can as little make propitiation for his sin as he can forgive it himself. But God can do both, atone and forgive; he… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves . .… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
“revelation always supposes that man is able to receive impressions or thoughts or inclinations from another than this phenomenal world, and in a way… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
“the plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
“science, which can make known only the interrelations of things, but never their origin, essence and end, will never be able to satisfy the… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
“The truth and value of Christianity do not depend on the fruits which it has borne for civilization and culture: it has its own… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
“If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
“if sin bears an ethical character, then redemption is possible, and conversion is in principle the conquest of sin, the death of the old… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
“To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
“205The segregation and the election of Israel served the sole purpose of maintaining, unmixed and unadulterated, continuing and perfecting, the original revelation, which threatened… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
“No psychology of religion can teach us what conversion is and ought to be; the Scriptures alone can tell us that.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
“Formerly men said that life was thought, but now we are told that life is will.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share
