Christian religion Quote by Herman Bavinck Download Open image ““Christian religion cannot abandon this supernaturalism without annihilating itself.”” — Herman Bavinck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christian religion Religion
“The supernatural is the only Biblical factor that lends credibility to Christianity. Minus the supernatural, Christianity will be another heap of frustrated human religion.” — David O. Oyedepo 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 Copy Share Image
“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Religion is a way of life, but knowing God is a way of living beyond yourself. It’s a relationship with a living, supernatural being.” — Love Belvin Copy Share Image
“A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.” — Paul Berman Copy Share Image
“Surprisingly, the Christian faith today is perceived as disconnected from the supernatural world – a dimension that the vast majority of outsiders believe can… — David Kinnaman 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 Copy Share Image
“[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.” — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
“We were created to be Spiritual people. Our Christianity is either Supernatural or superficial.” — Pastor Rod W. Larkins Copy Share Image
“If I cannot have a religion that will lead me to God, and place me en rapport with him, and unfold to my mind… — John Taylor 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
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Our belief of the Scriptures to be the word of God, or a divine revelation, and our understanding of the mind and will of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In England, under the Blasphemy Laws, it is illegal to express disbelief in the Christian religion, though in practice the law is not set… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“The Christian religion alone has been able to cure these twin vices, not by using one to expel the other according to worldly wisdom,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image