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