Philip Schaff Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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