History 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