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God makes everything beautiful in His time, He makes everything happen at the right moment, at the moment He has fixed for it, so that history in its entirety and in its parts corresponds to the counsel of God and exhibits the glory of that counsel.
— Herman Bavinck
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
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
In case a dogma is not based on divine authority, it is wrong to call it by that name, and it should not have a place in the faith of the church.
— Herman Bavinck
The superhuman task of transforming present society into a state of peace and joy requires more than ordinary human power; if God himself does not work the change, hope can be cherished only when human power is divinized.
— Herman Bavinck
All religion is supernatural, and rests upon the presupposition that God is distinct from the world and yet works in the world.
— Herman Bavinck
We do not see God as he is in himself. We behold him in his works. We name him according to the manner in which he has revealed himself in his works. To see God face to face is for us impossible, at least here on earth. If, nevertheless, God wills that we should know him, he must needs descend to the level of the creature. He must needs accommodate himself to our limited, finite, human consciousness.
— Herman Bavinck
The doctrine of the divine authority of Holy Scripture constitutes an important component in the words of God that Jesus preached, and if he was mistaken on this point he was wrong at a point that is most closely tied in with the religious life and he can no longer be recognized as our highest prophet. We cannot take Jesus seriously as a teacher and reject his own teaching concerning Holy Scripture.
— Herman Bavinck
Without faith in the existence, the revelation, and the knowability of God, no religion is possible.
— Herman Bavinck
God is mans best medicine!!!....The best medicine for man is god!!!......
— Hippocrates
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
— Hippocrates
People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe
— Hippocrates