26 Quotes by Herman Bavinck

The resurrection is the fundamental restoration of all culture.

Mystery is the lifeblood of dogmatics.

The cross of Christ divides history into two parts – the preparation for and the accomplishment of reconciliation;.

One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted.

Christ is not the founder of Christianity, nor the first confessor of it, nor the first Christian. But he is Christianity itself, in its preparation, fulfillment, and consummation.

The cross is the divine settlement with the divine condemnation of sin.

Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.

Conversion is not the source of truth, but the source of certainty with regard to the truth.

Religion is inconceivable apart from revelation, and revelation cannot occur apart from the existence of a spiritual world above and behind this visible world, a spiritual world in communion with the visible world.