The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings. — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“The Christian mind is the prerequisite of Christian thinking, and Christian thinking is the prerequisite for Christian action.” — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“Do we as Christians mentally inhabit the world presented to us by faith as the real world?” — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“We twentieth-century Christians have chosen the way of compromise. We withdraw our Christian consciousness from the fields of public, commercial, and social… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“...the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“If only there were an inhabited field of discourse where Christians were thinking Christianly about everything, there would be something nutritive for… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“We ourselves have so long ceased to use it [the Christian worldview] except for the discussion of the moral, the liturgical, or… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“An important contributory factor to the loss of mental morale in the church has been a misguided conception of Christian charity. It… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“Looking back to [Christendom's] youth, we recall the emotional stirrings, the deep sense of Christian purpose, when a temple, say, challenged the… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“We are all caught up, entangled, in the lumbering day-to-day operations of a [social] machinery, working in many respects in the service… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“If only there were an inhabited field of discourse where Christians were thinking Christianly about everything, there would be something nutritive for Christian minds… — Harry Blamires Copy Share
“...the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You… — Harry Blamires Copy Share
. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History. — Harry Blamires Copy Share
“In so far as the church nurtures the schizophrenic Christian, the church herself contributes to the very process of dismemberment which it is her… — Harry Blamires Copy Share
“And here, right at the start, one encounters a new difficulty. For the task of reestablishing the notion of God's authority is obstructed not… — Harry Blamires Copy Share
“We ourselves have so long ceased to use it [the Christian worldview] except for the discussion of the moral, the liturgical, or the spiritual,… — Harry Blamires Copy Share
“Looking back to [Christendom's] youth, we recall the emotional stirrings, the deep sense of Christian purpose, when a temple, say, challenged the existing social… — Harry Blamires Copy Share
“When a man falls in love, he sees the beloved in an idealized vision which to the rest of the world seems unjustified by… — Harry Blamires Copy Share
“The Christian mind is the prerequisite of Christian thinking, and Christian thinking is the prerequisite for Christian action.” — Harry Blamires Copy Share
“The collision between a Christian mind and a solidly earthbound culture ought to be a violent one.” — Harry Blamires Copy Share
There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. — Harry Blamires Copy Share
If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk.… — Harry Blamires Copy Share
“An important contributory factor to the loss of mental morale in the church has been a misguided conception of Christian charity. It has been… — Harry Blamires Copy Share
![“We ourselves have so long ceased to use it [the Christian worldview] except for the discussion of the moral, the liturgical, or the spiritual, that it is rusty and out of date. We have no Christian vocabulary to match the complexities of contemporary political, social, and industrial life. We have…” quote by Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8e7/harry-blamires-24019_christian-worldview_we-ourselves-have-so-long-ceased-to-use_1328237.jpg)
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