Philip Schaff Quotes

• 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.

  Philip Schaff

  Faith, Giving Up, Believe

  Philip Schaff (1882). “The Person of Christ: The Perfection of His Humanity Viewed as a Proof of His Divinity”

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• Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to all men on the condition of faith. Both are right in what they assert; both are wrong in what they deny. If one important truth is pressed to the exclusion of another truth of equal importance, it becomes an error, and loses its hold upon the conscience. The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either of them.

  Philip Schaff

  Christian, Responsibility, Men

  Philip Schaff, David Schley Schaff (1984). “History of the Christian Church, Volume 8 Modern Christianity the Swiss Reformation”, Eerdmans Pub Co

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• 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.

  Philip Schaff

  Victory, Would Be, Miserable

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

  Philip Schaff

  Men, Errors, Stronger

  Philip Schaff, David Schley Schaff (1970). “History of the Christian Church”

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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.

  Philip Schaff

  Jesus, Redemption, Earth

  Philip Schaff (1871). “From the birth of Christ to the reign of Constantine, A.D. 1-311”, p.94

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

  Philip Schaff

  Christian, Spiritual, Source

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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.

  Philip Schaff

  Heaven, Progress, Church

  Philip Schaff (2013). “Church History”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc

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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.

  Philip Schaff

  Christian, Miracle, Records

  Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.202, Library of Alexandria

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

  Philip Schaff

  Song, Gratitude, Book

  Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.182, Library of Alexandria

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

  Philip Schaff

  Dirt

  Philip Schaff, David Schley Schaff (1970). “History of the Christian Church”

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• Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of the American creed, without distinction of sect or party. Liberty, both civil and religious, is an American instinct. Such liberty is impossible on the basis of a union of church and state, where the one of necessity restricts or controls the other. It requires a friendly separation, where each power is entirely independent in its own sphere.

  Philip Schaff

  Religious, Party, Independent

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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.

  Philip Schaff

  Men, Race, Color

  Philip Schaff (1888). “Church and State in the United States ; Or, The American Idea of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Effects: With Official Documents”

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

  Philip Schaff

  Writing, Historical, Three

  Philip Schaff (2013). “Church History”, p.462, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Philip Schaff

  Christian, Jesus, Facts

  Philip Schaff (1866). “The person of Christ: the miracle of history, with a reply to Strauss and Renan, and a collection of testimonies of unbelievers”, p.5

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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.

  Philip Schaff

  Son, Infinite, Glory

  Philip Schaff (2013). “Church History”, p.419, Lulu Press, Inc

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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.

  Philip Schaff

  Country, Exercise, Atheism

  Philip Schaff (1888). “Church and State in the United States ; Or, The American Idea of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Effects: With Official Documents”

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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.

  Philip Schaff

  Design, Style, New Testament

  Philip Schaff (2013). “Church History”, p.461, Lulu Press, Inc

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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.

  Philip Schaff

  Government, Atheism, United States

  Philip Schaff (1888). “Church and State in the United States ; Or, The American Idea of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Effects: With Official Documents”

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• Those who make pictures of the Savior, who is God as well as man in one inseparable person, either limit the incomprehensible Godhead to the bounds of created flesh, or confound his two natures like Eutyches, or separate them, like Nestorius, or deny his Godhead, like Arius; and those who worship such a picture are guilty of the same heresy and blasphemy.

  Philip Schaff

  Men, Two, Flesh

  Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.3126, Library of Alexandria

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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.

  Philip Schaff

  Book, Law, Religion

  Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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

  Philip Schaff

  Religion, Liberty, Inseparable

  Philip Schaff (2017). “Church and State in The United States: The American Idea of Religious Liberty and its Practical Effects”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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