“The character of faith resolves all tensions between objectivity and subjectivity, For faith has significance only in its orientation to its object… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“The grace of God is never the cause for glorying in one’s own power ... Perseverance is always opposed to false self-confidence.” — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about baptism will always be its involvement with the death of Christ ... The prevenient aspect of the grace… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about baptism will always be its involvement with the death of Christ ... The prevenient aspect of the grace… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“Lord, will those who are saved be few?” ... Jesus’ answer seems so noncommittal, so evasive ... Strive to enter by the narrow door… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“The history of salvation does away with any personal glory ... in Christ, we have the exclusion of all human merit.” — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“The restoration of the image of God ... the new nature, created after the likeness of God in righteousness and holiness ... the new… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“On the route of faith and action, along with hope, we see that the gospel we believe is far removed from the picture of… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“Genuine sanctification has a ‘continued orientation toward justification.” — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“Men have tried to construct abstract and causal answers to this question of sin's origin and ... have violated the very limits of objectivity… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“The true nature of good works cannot be understood apart from Christ who is our ‘sanctification’ (1 Corinthians 1:30).” — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“In the Gospels, being a sinner means being lost ... There is no way for man to escape the condition of being lost ...… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament, "myth stands over against the truth (aletheia) of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“Dilemmas always are a source of polarization. We quickly move over to simplistic either-or’s … in which the fulness of truth is torn apart. And in the atmosphere of false polarities, we often stop listening to each other’s words. With this, irritation and pique poison the theological discussion. But it is striking and, at the same time, reassuring that the… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share
“The church's ... certainty is bound to certain norms and ... a feeling of subjective certainty does not guarantee irrefutable certainty ... it is… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“God ... is hidden from corrupt eyes, from the proud and disdainful, but revealed to those who in confession of sin and receptive faith… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
