"The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical,……" — Philip Schaff
"The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic."
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16 Quotes by Philip Schaff
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The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.
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Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.
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Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect;…
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Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form…
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Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
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The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a…
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The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory…
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One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.
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If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of…
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The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions…
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To give up faith in Christ is to give up faith in humanity; to believe in Christ is to believe…
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It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
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More Apostolic Quotes
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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If Jesus has become your hope, communicate this to others with your joy and your spiritual, apostolic and social engagement.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient",…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The fields are still ripe for harvesting (cf. Jn 4:35); God continues to give the growth (cf. 1 Cor 3:6).…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.
— Anthony Mary Claret
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What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed…
— Saint Augustine
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The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded…
— Saint Augustine
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The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is…
— Pope Pius IX
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By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and…
— Pope Innocent III
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The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the…
— St. Jerome
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That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See,…
— Pope Gregory XVI
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