Top 44 Gresham Machen Quotes
#1. The very center and core of the whole Bible is the doctrine of the grace of God - the grace of God which depends not one whit upon anything that is in man, but is absolutely undeserved, resistless and sovereign. J. Gresham Machen
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#2. The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism' ... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
John Gresham Machen
#3. I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.
John Gresham Machen
#4. The strange thing about Christianity was that it adopted an entirely different method. It transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the human will, but by telling a story; not by exhortation, but by the narration of an event.
J. Gresham Machen
#5. The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith
J. Gresham Machen
#6. Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.
John Gresham Machen
#7. The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.
J. Gresham Machen
#9. Light may seem at times to be an impertinent intruder, but it is always beneficial in the end.
John Gresham Machen
#10. 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.
John Gresham Machen
#12. In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.
J. Gresham Machen
#13. The church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man.
J. Gresham Machen
#14. 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.
John Gresham Machen
#15. Christ died"
that is history; "Christ died for our sins"
that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.
J. Gresham Machen
#16. Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.
John Gresham Machen
#17. What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.
J. Gresham Machen
#18. From every point of view, therefore, the problem in question is the most serious concern of the Church. What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age?
J. Gresham Machen
#19. If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.
John Gresham Machen
#20. 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
#21. Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.
J. Gresham Machen
#23. Involuntary organizations ought to be tolerant, but voluntary organizations, so far as the fundamental purpose of their existence is concerned, must be intolerant or else cease to exist.
J. Gresham Machen
#24. Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.
John Gresham Machen
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. That it is not the Christianity of the New Testament which is in conflict with science, but the supposed Christianity of the modern liberal Church, and that the real city of God, and that city alone, has defences which are capable of warding off the assaults of modern unbelief. However,
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#29. It is often said that the divided condition of Christendom is an evil, and so it is. But the evil consists in the existence of the errors which cause the divisions and not at all in the recognition of those errors when once they exist.
J. Gresham Machen
#30. A new and more powerful proclamation of the law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour ... A low view of law always brings legalism into religion; a high view of law makes man a seeker after grace. Pray that the high view may prevail.
J. Gresham Machen
#32. It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it.
J. Gresham Machen
#33. Why should we be indignant about slanders directed against a human friend, while at the same time we are patient about the basest slanders directed against our God?
J. Gresham Machen
#34. 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
#35. 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.
John Gresham Machen
#36. 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
#37. A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.
John Gresham Machen
#39. I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
John Gresham Machen
#40. Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel
John Gresham Machen
#41. 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.
John Gresham Machen
#42. 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.
John Gresham Machen
#44. At that point the enemies saw clear. You may accept the lofty claims of Jesus. You may take Him as very God. Or else you must reject Him as a miserable, deluded enthusiast. There is really no middle ground. Jesus refuses to be pressed into the mould of a mere religious teacher.
J. Gresham Machen
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