"The history of the Church is the rise……" — Philip Schaff
"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 of the world."
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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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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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The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
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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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