Herman Bavinck Quotes

#1. A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It is a priestly ministration in the house of the Lord. It is itself a service of worship, a consecration of mind and heart to the honour of His name.

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#2. We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in darkness. Scripture makes not so much a single effort to render this transition understandable

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#3. The essence of Christianity consists therein: that the creation of the Father, destroyed by sin, is again restored in the death of the Son of God and recreated by the grace of the Holy Spirit to a Kingdom of God.

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#4. God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom of God by His Spirit.

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#5. Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification ... faith and repentance themselves ... are components of the gospel, not the workings or fruits of the law.

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#6. Mystery is the lifeblood of dogmatics.

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#7. Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.

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

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#9. And these two things, the love of God and Christ's satisfaction, had to and could go hand in hand because we were simultaneously the object of his love as his creatures and the object of his wrath as sinners.

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#10. The gospel is the food of faith ... God saves by causing Himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ.

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