Noah Porter Quote

Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.


Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 133.


Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or...

Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or...

Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or...

Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or...