Herman Bavinck

“Thus the true, the good and the beautiful which ethical culture seeks can only come to perfection when the absolute good is…

— Herman Bavinck

“God does not say that He will be our God if we do this or that thing. But He says that He…

— Herman Bavinck

“173Augustine speaks of a Christianity which has existed since the beginning of the human race,”

— Herman Bavinck

“The greatest thinkers of Greece — Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and later Plutarch and Plotinus — derived their ideas from ancient tradition, and…

— Herman Bavinck

“It is supernaturalism, which in point of fact forms the point of controversy between Christianity and many panegyrists of modern culture.”

— Herman Bavinck

“But the electing love of God is at the same time a forgiving love. God not only elects and calls, but gives…

— Herman Bavinck

“Conversion is the sole and the absolutely peculiar way to heaven.”

— Herman Bavinck

“God is above the world, and is also above sin and all evil. He allowed it because he could expiate it. So…

— Herman Bavinck

“All worldviews, therefore, end in an eschatology and all efforts at reformation are animated by faith in the future.”

— Herman Bavinck

“reason was cast down from this exalted pedestal by the philosophy of Kant, by the theology of Schleiermacher and with the rise…

— Herman Bavinck

“this nature is twofold; it includes not only the whole visible world of phenomena which is outside man, but also, in a…

— Herman Bavinck

We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in…

— Herman Bavinck

“Beneath the head lies the heart, out of which are the issues of life.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Reason in this newer philosophy took its starting point with childish naivete in its own integrity and trustworthiness.”

— Herman Bavinck

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“conversion means a religious and moral change in man, by which he gives up his sinful ways and learns to know, love,…

— Herman Bavinck

“Culture, therefore, sinks into the background; man must first become a son of God before he can be, in a genuine sense,…

— Herman Bavinck

“Race instinct, sense of nationality, enmity, and hatred, these are divisive forces between peoples. This is an astonishing punishment and a terrible…

— Herman Bavinck

“157Openly or secretly all turn back to an inborn disposition, to a religio insita.”

— Herman Bavinck

“everything we value in this life is inseparably connected with the future.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Human nature is not an empty notion, no purely abstract conception, but a reality, a particular manner of being, which includes distinctive…

— Herman Bavinck

“The cross is the divine settlement with the divine condemnation of sin.”

— Herman Bavinck

In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this…

— Herman Bavinck

“Men may differ as to the nature and the reach of conversion, but its necessity is established beyond all doubt; the whole…

— Herman Bavinck

“Evolution is dismissive of the eternity of moral duty and moral laws.”

— Herman Bavinck