“Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.” — Herman Bavinck Culture Copy Share Image
“If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.” — Herman Bavinck Misery Copy Share Image
“Evolution is dismissive of the eternity of moral duty and moral laws.” — Herman Bavinck Biology Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics, the belief in the absolute as a holy power, always forms the foundation of ethics.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Christian religion cannot abandon this supernaturalism without annihilating itself.” — Herman Bavinck Christian religion Copy Share Image
The gospel is the food of faith... God saves by causing Himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ. — Herman Bavinck Christ Copy Share Image
“Culture, therefore, sinks into the background; man must first become a son of God before he can be, in a genuine sense,… — Herman Bavinck Culture Copy Share Image
Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind. — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“reason was cast down from this exalted pedestal by the philosophy of Kant, by the theology of Schleiermacher and with the rise… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“When we go back as far as possible to the origins we find a human nature which already contains everything which it… — Herman Bavinck Human nature 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… — Herman Bavinck Christianity 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
“whoever intentionally robs himself of self-consciousness, reason, and will, extinguishes the light which God has given to man, annihilates his human freedom… — Herman Bavinck Freedom Copy Share Image
“there is great danger that modern culture, progressing in its anti-supernaturalistic course, will be stirred against the steadfastness of believers and attempt… — Herman Bavinck Danger 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… — 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… — Herman Bavinck Communication Copy Share Image
Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the… — Herman Bavinck Body Copy Share Image
“The central facts of the incarnation, satisfaction, and resurrection are the fulfillment of the three great thoughts of the Old Covenant, the… — Herman Bavinck Christian church Copy Share Image
A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To… — Herman Bavinck Consecration Copy Share Image
In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this… — Herman Bavinck Bible 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 Faith Copy Share Image
“Reason in this newer philosophy took its starting point with childish naivete in its own integrity and trustworthiness.” — Herman Bavinck Naivete Copy Share Image
“We have no historical testimony to the development of polytheism into pure monotheism;” — Herman Bavinck History Copy Share Image
“All religion is supernatural, and rests upon the presupposition that God is distinct from the world and yet works in the world.” — Herman Bavinck Religion 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 Change Copy Share Image
“Ethical culture must be a philosophy of revelation or it cannot exist.” — Herman Bavinck Character Copy Share Image
“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.” — Herman Bavinck Civilization Copy Share Image
“Conversion is not the source of truth, but the source of certainty with regard to the truth.” — Herman Bavinck Conversion Copy Share Image
“Formerly men said that life was thought, but now we are told that life is will.” — Herman Bavinck Life Copy Share Image
“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 Christian religion Copy Share Image
“Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.” — Herman Bavinck Religion Copy Share Image
“All worldviews, therefore, end in an eschatology and all efforts at reformation are animated by faith in the future.” — Herman Bavinck Eschatology Copy Share Image
“The cross of Christ divides history into two parts — the preparation for and the accomplishment of reconciliation;” — Herman Bavinck Cross 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
“No psychology of religion can teach us what conversion is and ought to be; the Scriptures alone can tell us that.” — Herman Bavinck Communication Copy Share Image
“the plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.” — Herman Bavinck Christian religion Copy Share Image
“The notion that all peoples are on the road to progress is as incorrect as that they are continuously declining and degenerating.” — Herman Bavinck Growth Copy Share Image
God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“328An optimism which is exclusively built on evolution is always transmuted into pessimism if one ponders a little more deeply.” — Herman Bavinck Optimism Copy Share Image
“one thread runs through the history of mankind, namely, the operation of the sovereign, merciful, and almighty will of God, to save… — Herman Bavinck Corruption Copy Share Image
