Apostolic Quote by Philip Schaff Download Open image “The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.” — Philip Schaff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apostolic Didactic Historical Kind Prophetic Three Writing
One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers in that… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries.… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church. — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“The three-volume work on Jesus Christ, on its own, makes this pontificate unique. With it, Benedict XVI created a handbook for the future of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“What kind of thing is the religion those writings describe? The first difficulty before the enquirer is that the writings do not profess to… — Philip Hughes Copy Share Image
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“Luther, the hero of Worms, the champion of the sacred rights of conscience, was, in words, the most violent, but in practice, the least… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“Some plant wild fig trees near cultivated fig trees, and there are others who, to remedy the weakness of the productive fig tree of… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“Henceforth we find woman no longer a slave of man and tool of lust, but the pride and joy of her husband, the fond… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“Paul was the only scholar among the apostles. He never displays his learning, considering it of no account as compared with the excellency of… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect: the other extends it… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“Calvin sets the absolute sovereignty of God and the infallibility of the Bible over against the pretended sovereignty and infallibility of the pope. Fearing… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“If ever a monk got to heaven by monkery," says Luther, "I ought to have gotten there.” — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
I entrust this Twenty-second World Day of the Sick to the intercession of Mary. I ask her to help the sick to bear their… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is the result… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are to be… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last portion that… — Pope Martin I Copy Share Image
What kind of authority can there be for an 'Apostle' who, unlike the other Apostles, had never been prepared for the Apostolic office in… — Ferdinand Christian Baur Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries.… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification,… — Pope Innocent I Copy Share Image
I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only. — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
For me, passion means whatever a person is willing to suffer for.'Apostolic passion,' therefore, is a deliberate, intentional choice to live for the worship… — Floyd McClung Copy Share Image
One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness. — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
