"To the first class belong the Gospels and……" — Philip Schaff
"To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation."
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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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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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More Acts Quotes
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
— Joseph Addison
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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