Philip Schaff Quotes

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

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

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

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To give up faith in Christ is to give up faith in humanity; to believe in Christ is to believe in the redeption and final glorification of men; and this faith is the best inspiration to a holy and useful life for the good of our race of the glory of God.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

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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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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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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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