Kingdom of heaven Quote by Herman Bavinck

“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

“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

Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves . .…

— Herman Bavinck

“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

“the plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.”

— Herman Bavinck

“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

“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.”

— Herman Bavinck

“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

“If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.”

— Herman Bavinck

“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

“To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible”

— Herman Bavinck