Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves… — 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 essence of Christianity consists therein: that the creation of the Father, destroyed by sin, is again restored in the death of… — 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
“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
“Metaphysics, the belief in the absolute as a holy power, always forms the foundation of ethics.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“faith, which forms its positive side is at the same time cognitio and fiducia, a trustful knowledge and a knowing trust.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves . .… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“the plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.” — 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 its own… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.” — 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 the old… — 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
