“When we go back as far as possible to the origins we find a human nature which already contains everything which it… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The facts are that an essential difference exists between man and beast. Human nature is sui generis; it has its own character… — 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
“Human nature is not an empty notion, no purely abstract conception, but a reality, a particular manner of being, which includes distinctive… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“If there ever is to be a blessed humanity it must be preceded by a radical change in human nature.” — 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
