Philip Schaff Quotes

Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.

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

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

I hate the Bible. I always did.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

I finally discovered something - it's all about Jesus.

The gospel is simply glorious and gloriously simple.

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man.

If you own just one Bible, you are abundantly blessed. 1/3rd of the world does not have access to even one.

The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.

If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you already have the Holy Spirit living within you.

Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.