Quotes from berkhof louis ii

Moreover, true repentance never exists except in conjunction with faith, while on the other hand, wherever there is true faith, there is also real repentance. The two are but different aspects of the same turning--a turning away from sin in the direction of God.

Christ is indeed the center of God's revelation, but for that very reason cannot be the startingpoint.

Faith is on the one hand the gift of God wrought in the sinner unto justification, the means by which He carries the declaration of pardon into the heart. But it is also on the other hand the instrument by which man appropriates Christ and all His precious gifts.

God reveals Himself in nature and history, but the study of these is not necessarily theology, since both can be studied simply as they are in themselves apart from their revelational implications.

If the Church on earth is the militant Church, the Church in heaven is the triumphant Church.