Top 27 John Gresham Machen Quotes
#1. God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.
John Gresham Machen
#2. What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.
John Gresham Machen
#3. The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology.
John Gresham Machen
#5. Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.
John Gresham Machen
#6. Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.
John Gresham Machen
#7. If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.
John Gresham Machen
#8. A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.
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#10. I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
John Gresham Machen
#11. Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel
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#12. The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.
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#13. According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.
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#15. The first chapters of the Bible tell us of the sin of man. The guilt of that sin had rested upon every single one of us, it guilt and its terrible results..but..it also tells us of something greater still; it tells us of the grace of the offended God.
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#16. I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.
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#17. Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.
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#19. Light may seem at times to be an impertinent intruder, but it is always beneficial in the end.
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#20. The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.
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#22. The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism' ... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
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#23. In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies.
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#24. Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.
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#25. If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.
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#26. I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the gospel on the street corners and at the ends of earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.
John Gresham Machen
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