Quotes about Divine
Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
— Cicero
There are no coincidences in God's providence.
— Cindy Woodsmall
Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.
— Herman Bavinck
Man is an enigma whose solution can be found only in God.
— Herman Bavinck
The cross is the divine settlement with the divine condemnation of sin.
— Herman Bavinck
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
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
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
Thus the true, the good and the beautiful which ethical culture seeks can only come to perfection when the absolute good is at the same time the almighty, divine will, which not only prescribes the good in the moral law, but also works it effectually in man himself. The heteronomy of law and the autonomy of man are reconciled only by this theonomy.
— Herman Bavinck
Ethical culture must be a philosophy of revelation or it cannot exist.
— Herman Bavinck
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