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Top 25 Herman Bavinck Quotes (2025 Update)

Herman Bavinck Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Herman Bavinck Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Herman Bavinck Quote: “God is above the world, and is also above sin and all evil. He allowed it because he could expiate it. So he maintained through all centuries and among all men the longing and the capacity for redemption, and wrought that redemption himself in the fulness of time, in the midst of history, in the crucified Christ.”

3. “God is above the world, and is also above sin and all evil. He allowed it because he could expiate it. So he maintained through all centuries and among all men the longing and the capacity for redemption, and wrought that redemption himself in the fulness of time, in the midst of history, in the crucified Christ.”

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “The resurrection is the fundamental restoration of all culture.”

4. “The resurrection is the fundamental restoration of all culture.”

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Herman Bavinck Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Herman Bavinck Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “Where God’s Word is, there is God Himself, there God’s Spirit is at work, there God establishes His covenant, there He plants His church.”

8. “Where God’s Word is, there is God Himself, there God’s Spirit is at work, there God establishes His covenant, there He plants His church.”

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “The cross of Christ divides history into two parts – the preparation for and the accomplishment of reconciliation;.”

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

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “The cross is the divine settlement with the divine condemnation of sin.”

10. “The cross is the divine settlement with the divine condemnation of sin.”

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted.”

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

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “It is, moreover, of the greatest importance for every believer, particularly for the dogmatician, to know which Scriptural truths, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, have been brought to universal recognition in the church of Christ. By this process, after all, the church is kept from immediately mistaking a private opinion for the truth of God.”

12. “It is, moreover, of the greatest importance for every believer, particularly for the dogmatician, to know which Scriptural truths, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, have been brought to universal recognition in the church of Christ. By this process, after all, the church is kept from immediately mistaking a private opinion for the truth of God.”

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “Man is an enigma whose solution can be found only in God.”

13. “Man is an enigma whose solution can be found only in God.”

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Herman Bavinck Quote: “Scientific information about the universe does not displace God. Some have said that they searched the heavens and did not see God. The universe with its measureless spaces remains a vast mystery to us, and those who do not find God in their immediate presence, in their heart and conscience, in the Word and the Christian community, will not find him in the universe either, even though they are equipped with the best telescopes that money can buy.”

15. “Scientific information about the universe does not displace God. Some have said that they searched the heavens and did not see God. The universe with its measureless spaces remains a vast mystery to us, and those who do not find God in their immediate presence, in their heart and conscience, in the Word and the Christian community, will not find him in the universe either, even though they are equipped with the best telescopes that money can buy.”

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “The highest ideal for the Christian is not to make peace with the world, with science, with culture at any price, but to keep himself from the evil one.”

17. “The highest ideal for the Christian is not to make peace with the world, with science, with culture at any price, but to keep himself from the evil one.”

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “Mystery is the lifeblood of dogmatics.”

18. “Mystery is the lifeblood of dogmatics.”

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Herman Bavinck Quote: “Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.”

19. “Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.”

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Herman Bavinck Quote: “Beneath the head lies the heart, out of which are the issues of life.”

20. “Beneath the head lies the heart, out of which are the issues of life.”

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “The task of dogmatics is precisely to rationally reproduce the content of revelation that relates to the knowledge of God.”

21. “The task of dogmatics is precisely to rationally reproduce the content of revelation that relates to the knowledge of God.”

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Herman Bavinck Quote: “The conclusion, therefore, is that of Augustine, who said that the heart of man was created for God and that it cannot find rest until it rests in his Father’s heart. Hence all men are really seeking after God, as Augustine also declared, but they do not all seek Him in the right way, nor at the right place.”

22. “The conclusion, therefore, is that of Augustine, who said that the heart of man was created for God and that it cannot find rest until it rests in his Father’s heart. Hence all men are really seeking after God, as Augustine also declared, but they do not all seek Him in the right way, nor at the right place.”

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible.”

23. “To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible.”

— Herman Bavinck

Herman Bavinck Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Herman Bavinck Quote: “In Illinois there is a group of men who call themselves The University of Illinois and who, for a couple of dollars, will award a degree in a particular science.”

25. “In Illinois there is a group of men who call themselves The University of Illinois and who, for a couple of dollars, will award a degree in a particular science.”

— Herman Bavinck

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