Philip Schaff Quotes

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• The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.
• Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.
• Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to…
• Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes…
• Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
• The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic…
• The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation…
• One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.
• If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.
• The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
• The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
• To give up faith in Christ is to give up faith in humanity; to believe in Christ is to believe in the redeption and final…
• It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
• The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment…
• To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
• The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the…

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