“religious experience is neither the source nor the foundation of religious truth;” — Herman Bavinck Experience Copy Share Image
“primitive man has never existed; he is nothing but a poetical creation of monistic imagination” — Herman Bavinck Creation Copy Share Image
“if the moral law or the ideal good indeed exists outside of us, then it must be grounded in and be one… — Herman Bavinck Character Copy Share Image
“The more deeply we live, the more we feel in sympathy with Augustine, and the less with Pelagius.” — Herman Bavinck Augustine Copy Share Image
“To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible” — Herman Bavinck Metaphysics Copy Share Image
“157Openly or secretly all turn back to an inborn disposition, to a religio insita.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“It is supernaturalism, which in point of fact forms the point of controversy between Christianity and many panegyrists of modern culture.” — Herman Bavinck Christianity Copy Share Image
“everything we value in this life is inseparably connected with the future.” — Herman Bavinck Future Copy Share Image
“empirical life is rooted in an a priori datum which does not come slowly into existence by mechanical development, but is a… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral… — Herman Bavinck Character 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… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The highest ideal for the Christian is not to make peace with the world, with science, with culture at any price, but… — Herman Bavinck Christian Copy Share Image
“Revelation in nature and revelation in Scripture form, in alliance with each other, a harmonious unity which satisfies the requirements of the… — Herman Bavinck Bible 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 Habits Copy Share Image
“But the electing love of God is at the same time a forgiving love. God not only elects and calls, but gives… — Herman Bavinck Forgiving love Copy Share Image
“the subduing of the earth, that is, the whole of culture, is given to him, and can be given to him only… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“God is above the world, and is also above sin and all evil. He allowed it because he could expiate it. So… — Herman Bavinck History Copy Share Image
“250Christianity is no mere revelation of God in the past, but it is, in connection with the past, a work in the… — Herman Bavinck Christ alone 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
“173Augustine speaks of a Christianity which has existed since the beginning of the human race,” — Herman Bavinck Christianity 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“the plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.” — Herman Bavinck Christian religion 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
“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
“Conversion is not the source of truth, but the source of certainty with regard to the truth.” — Herman Bavinck Conversion 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
“Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.” — Herman Bavinck Religion 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
“Formerly men said that life was thought, but now we are told that life is will.” — Herman Bavinck Life 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
“it is impossible to begin investigation without assumptions, for they all are founded on ideas and canons which have their basis in… — Herman Bavinck Nature Copy Share Image
