Religion Quote by Herman Bavinck Download Open image ““157Openly or secretly all turn back to an inborn disposition, to a religio insita.”” — Herman Bavinck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Religion
“A person who had to spread the cloak of religion over her own petty desires.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“And that in this backsliding day, we might not spend our breath in fruitless complaints of the evils of others; but may everyone begin at home, to reform in the first place our own hearts, and ways; and then to quicken all that we may have influence upon, to the same work that if the will of God were so,… — Various Copy Share
“It is the greatest folly that is in Babel for people to strive about religion, so that they contend vehemently about opinions of their… — Jakob Böhme Copy Share Image
“Wherever I found religion in my life I found strife, the attempt of one individual or group to rule another in the name of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“And by that habit of submission, with which we are only too familiar, the thought of the next generation retains this religious twist, which… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“again. Here is a sober lesson. Even after times of spectacular revival, reformation, or covenantal renewal, the people of God are never more than… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“But always the noose of religious belief imposed. The need for prayer and penance, chastisement and confession and the meaning of special friendships.” — Annette De Burgh Copy Share Image
“I was simple enough to think, that because my faith was plighted to another, there could be no danger in my being with you;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“18. 'Whosoever is a provoker and is avaricious, has sinful desires, is envious, wicked, shameless, and fearless of sinning, let one know him as… — V. Fausbøll 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
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
