Herman Bavinck Quotes

#1. And just then it crossed my mind that one might fire, or not fire - and it would come to absolutely the same thing.

Albert Camus

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

Herman Bavinck

#3. 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.

Herman Bavinck

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

Herman Bavinck

#5. President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: 'I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don't play by the rules.'

Ron Wyden

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

Herman Bavinck

#7. Mystery is the lifeblood of dogmatics.

Herman Bavinck

#8. The fear of what might happen in the future is almost always worse than the future that eventually arrives.

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. 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.

Herman Bavinck

#10. Strand of auburn hair out of her face and tried smoothing it back into the knot at the base of her neck. Yes, this is exactly what I would want for my baby shower ... if I ever get to have one. A stabbing pain entered her heart before crisscrossing its way through

Katie Ashley

#11. Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte

#12. 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.

Herman Bavinck

#13. 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.

Herman Bavinck

#14. 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

Herman Bavinck

#15. Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

Henry Mitchell

#16. I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.

Gretchen Wyler

#17. I fell in love ... she caused a type of smile within me that nothing else can or has.

Steve Maraboli

#18. I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country ... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.

Edward Brooke

#19. 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.

Herman Bavinck

#20. So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

Marc Newson