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“science, which can make known only the interrelations of things, but never their origin, essence and end, will never be able to satisfy the needs of the human heart.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“When we go back as far as possible to the origins we find a human nature which already contains everything which it later on produces out of itself.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“The notion that all peoples are on the road to progress is as incorrect as that they are continuously declining and degenerating.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“primitive man has never existed; he is nothing but a poetical creation of monistic imagination”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“157Openly or secretly all turn back to an inborn disposition, to a religio insita.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“All religion is supernatural, and rests upon the presupposition that God is distinct from the world and yet works in the world.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“it is impossible to begin investigation without assumptions, for they all are founded on ideas and canons which have their basis in the rational and moral nature of man.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“as the pure knowledge of God disappears, nature too in its true character is disowned, and either exalted into the sphere of the Godhead or degraded to the sphere of a demoniacal power.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“But the Church throughout all the world, having its origin firm from the apostles, perseveres in one and the same opinion with regard to God and His Son.”
― The Church Fathers, The Complete Ante-Nicene & Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection

“both the Mosaic law and the grace of the new covenant, as both fitted for the times [at which they were given], were bestowed by one and the same God for the benefit of the human race.”
― The Church Fathers, The Complete Ante-Nicene & Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection

“And in the course of this work I shall touch upon the cause of the difference of the covenants on the one hand, and, on the other hand, of their unity and harmony.”
― The Church Fathers, The Complete Ante-Nicene & Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection

“173Augustine speaks of a Christianity which has existed since the beginning of the human race,”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“reason was cast down from this exalted pedestal by the philosophy of Kant, by the theology of Schleiermacher and with the rise of the Romantic school.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“The greatest thinkers of Greece — Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and later Plutarch and Plotinus — derived their ideas from ancient tradition, and further on from divine revelation.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“Philosophy arose out of religion,”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“The facts are that an essential difference exists between man and beast. Human nature is sui generis; it has its own character and attributes. If this be true, then the common origin of all men is a necessity;”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“Human nature is not an empty notion, no purely abstract conception, but a reality, a particular manner of being, which includes distinctive habits, inclinations, and attributes.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“We have no historical testimony to the development of polytheism into pure monotheism;”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“205The segregation and the election of Israel served the sole purpose of maintaining, unmixed and unadulterated, continuing and perfecting, the original revelation, which threatened to be lost206so that it might again in the fullness of time be made the property of the whole of mankind.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“gospel is in the Old and the New Testament alike the core of the divine revelation, the essence of religion, the sum total of the Holy Scriptures.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“But the electing love of God is at the same time a forgiving love. God not only elects and calls, but gives himself to his people; he joins himself to them so intimately and tenderly that he charges their guilt and transfers it, as it were, to himself.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“Man can as little make propitiation for his sin as he can forgive it himself. But God can do both, atone and forgive; he can do the one just because he can do the other.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“Theology leads through soteriology to eschatology.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“The central facts of the incarnation, satisfaction, and resurrection are the fulfillment of the three great thoughts of the Old Covenant, the content of the New Testament, the Kerygma of the Apostles, the foundation of the Christian Church, the marrow of its history of dogma and the centre of the history of the world.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“one thread runs through the history of mankind, namely, the operation of the sovereign, merciful, and almighty will of God, to save and to glorify the world notwithstanding its subjection to corruption.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“This will of God forms the heart of pure religion and at the same time the soul of all true theology.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“Reason in this newer philosophy took its starting point with childish naivete in its own integrity and trustworthiness.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation

“Theology has, since Kant's time, become a theology of consciousness and experience and thus loses itself in religious anthropology.”
― Herman Bavinck, The Philosophy of Revelation