Philip Schaff

“Luther, the hero of Worms, the champion of the sacred rights of conscience, was, in words, the most violent, but in practice,…

— Philip Schaff

“Some plant wild fig trees near cultivated fig trees, and there are others who, to remedy the weakness of the productive fig…

— Philip Schaff

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

— Philip Schaff

“Henceforth we find woman no longer a slave of man and tool of lust, but the pride and joy of her husband,…

— Philip Schaff

“Paul was the only scholar among the apostles. He never displays his learning, considering it of no account as compared with the…

— Philip Schaff

One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.

— Philip Schaff

“Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect: the other…

— Philip Schaff

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

— Philip Schaff

The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.

— Philip Schaff

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child…

— Philip Schaff

“Calvin sets the absolute sovereignty of God and the infallibility of the Bible over against the pretended sovereignty and infallibility of the…

— Philip Schaff

“If ever a monk got to heaven by monkery," says Luther, "I ought to have gotten there.”

— Philip Schaff

The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It…

— Philip Schaff

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

— Philip Schaff

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

— Philip Schaff

“But because this man listens and that man scoffs, and most are enamored of the blandishments of vice rather than the wholesome…

— Philip Schaff

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

— Philip Schaff

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier…

— Philip Schaff

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the…

— Philip Schaff

“Because the Holy Spirit is received by faith, our hearts are now renewed, and so put on new affections, so that they…

— Philip Schaff

The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this…

— Philip Schaff

“John was not a logician, but a seer; not a reasoner, but a mystic; he does not argue, but assert; he arrives…

— Philip Schaff

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

— Philip Schaff

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

— Philip Schaff

Those who make pictures of the Savior, who is God as well as man in one inseparable person, either limit the incomprehensible…

— Philip Schaff