Herman Bavinck - Reformed Dogmatics

3 Sourced Quotes

View all Herman Bavinck Quotes

It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity in time, immensity in space, infinity in finite, immutability in change, being in becoming, the all, as it were, in that which is nothing. This mystery cannot be comprehended; it can only be gratefully acknowledged.

Herman Bavinck

Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the Christian faith. That person becomes a branch that is torn from the tree and shrivels, an organ that is separated from the body and therefore doomed to die. Only within the communion of the saints can the length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love of Christ be comprehended.

Herman Bavinck

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