Philip Schaff

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

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

The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

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.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

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