Philip Schaff Quotes

#1. For where grace is, there is a remitting, and where remitting is, there is no punishment. Punishment then being removed, and righteousness succeeding from faith, there is no obstacle to our becoming heirs of the promise.

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#2. Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and no power on earth has a right to stand between God and the conscience.

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#3. If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.

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#4. 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 the work of redemption.

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#5. The facts must rule philosophy, not philosophy the facts.

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#6. The history of mankind before his birth must be viewed as a preparation for his coming, and the history after his birth as a gradual diffusion of his spirit and progress of his kingdom.

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#7. The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.

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#8. The Son of God, prompted by the same infinite love, laid aside his divine glory and mode of existence, emptied himself exchanged the form of God for the form of a servant, humbled himself and became obedient, even unto the death of the cross.

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#9. belonged to the respectable class of society, but must have been poor; for he depended for support on a trade which he learned in accordance with rabbinical custom; it was the trade of tent-making, very common in Cilicia, and not profitable except in large cities.

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#10. The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records.

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#11. Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.

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#12. Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

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#13. 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 for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

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#14. John was not a logician, but a seer; not a reasoner, but a mystic; he does not argue, but assert; he arrives at conclusions with one bound, as by direct intuition.

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#15. In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

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#16. 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 word became flesh, and dwells among us.'

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#17. Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

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#18. To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

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#19. 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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#20. The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

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#21. It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

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#22. We find everywhere in this world the traces of a revealed God and of a hidden God; revealed enough to strengthen our faith, concealed enough to try our faith.

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#23. The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

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#24. More Christian blood has been shed by Christians than by heathens and Mohammedans.

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#25. 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.

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#26. One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.

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#27. 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 law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

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