Herman Bavinck

“Christ is not the founder of Christianity, nor the first confessor of it, nor the first Christian. But he is Christianity itself,…

— Herman Bavinck

“Man can as little make propitiation for his sin as he can forgive it himself. But God can do both, atone and…

— Herman Bavinck

Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves…

— Herman Bavinck

“revelation always supposes that man is able to receive impressions or thoughts or inclinations from another than this phenomenal world, and in…

— Herman Bavinck

“the plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.”

— Herman Bavinck

“science, which can make known only the interrelations of things, but never their origin, essence and end, will never be able to…

— Herman Bavinck

“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.”

— Herman Bavinck

“The truth and value of Christianity do not depend on the fruits which it has borne for civilization and culture: it has…

— Herman Bavinck

“If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.”

— Herman Bavinck

“if sin bears an ethical character, then redemption is possible, and conversion is in principle the conquest of sin, the death of…

— Herman Bavinck

“To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible”

— Herman Bavinck

“205The segregation and the election of Israel served the sole purpose of maintaining, unmixed and unadulterated, continuing and perfecting, the original revelation,…

— Herman Bavinck

“No psychology of religion can teach us what conversion is and ought to be; the Scriptures alone can tell us that.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Formerly men said that life was thought, but now we are told that life is will.”

— Herman Bavinck

“it is impossible to begin investigation without assumptions, for they all are founded on ideas and canons which have their basis in…

— Herman Bavinck

“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

“All religion is supernatural, and rests upon the presupposition that God is distinct from the world and yet works in the world.”

— Herman Bavinck

“The whole man is taken into fellowship with that one true God; not only his feelings, but also his mind and will,…

— Herman Bavinck

God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom…

— Herman Bavinck

“The Gospel is sheer good tidings, not demand but promise, not duty but gift. But in order that as promise and gift…

— Herman Bavinck

Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.

— Herman Bavinck

“Revelation in nature and revelation in Scripture form, in alliance with each other, a harmonious unity which satisfies the requirements of the…

— Herman Bavinck

“In the same way, any ethical system which aspires to be true ethics and to bear a normative and teleological character, not…

— Herman Bavinck

“Manifest in this trade (commercial sale of indulgences via bankers) at the same time was a pernicious tendency in the Roman Catholic…

— Herman Bavinck