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Quote by Herman Bavinck

“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.”

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Herman Bavinck

Dutch theologian and a significant representative of Reformed theology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bavinck's works have widely influenced theological thought in the 20th century. more

“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.”

Space Known Mystery Becoming Eternity Infinity Finite Immensity

Book:Reformed Dogmatics: God and Creation

Source: Reformed Dogmatics: God and Creation

“The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]”

Should Two Lying Perfect Tree Distance Hung Dictionary Describing Hammocks Two Trees Distance Apart

Book:The Book of Idle Pleasures

Source: The Book of Idle Pleasures

“What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something.”