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title: "2 Christian Thinking Quotes By Harry Blamires"
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> [ “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 order... Where is our Christian duty, our Christian aim? We do not know, we cannot say.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/looking-back-to-christendom-s-youth-we-recall-the-emotional-stirrings/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

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> [“The Christian mind is the prerequisite of Christian thinking, and Christian thinking is the prerequisite for Christian action.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/the-christian-mind-is-the-prerequisite-of-christian-thinking-and/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

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## More by Harry Blamires

> [“May God even yet deliver us from the sin of loyalty!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/may-god-even-yet-deliver-us-from-the-sin-of-loyalty/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [There is no longer a Christian mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/there-is-no-longer-a-christian-mind/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“If only there were an inhabited field of discourse where Christians were thinking Christianly about everything, there would be something nutritive for Christian minds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/if-only-there-were-an-inhabited-field-of-discourse-where-christians/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“...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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/the-wise-words-of-a-friend-and-guide-rang-in-my-head-how-would-you/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/the-christian-mind-has-succumbed-to-the-secular-drift-with-a-degree/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“In so far as the church nurtures the schizophrenic Christian, the church herself contributes to the very process of dismemberment which it is her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/in-so-far-as-the-church-nurtures-the-schizophrenic-christian-the/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/and-here-right-at-the-start-one-encounters-a-new-difficulty-for-the/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [ “We ourselves have so long ceased to use it \[the Christian worldview\] except for the discussion of the moral, the liturgical, or the spiritual,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/we-ourselves-have-so-long-ceased-to-use-it-the-christian-worldview/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [ “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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/looking-back-to-christendom-s-youth-we-recall-the-emotional-stirrings/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“When a man falls in love, he sees the beloved in an idealized vision which to the rest of the world seems unjustified by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/when-a-man-falls-in-love-he-sees-the-beloved-in-an-idealized-vision/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“The Christian mind is the prerequisite of Christian thinking, and Christian thinking is the prerequisite for Christian action.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/the-christian-mind-is-the-prerequisite-of-christian-thinking-and/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“The collision between a Christian mind and a solidly earthbound culture ought to be a violent one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/the-collision-between-a-christian-mind-and-a-solidly-earthbound/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/there-is-nothing-in-our-experience-however-trivial-worldly-or-even/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/if-christians-cannot-communicate-as-thinking-beings-they-are-reduced/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“An important contributory factor to the loss of mental morale in the church has been a misguided conception of Christian charity. It has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/an-important-contributory-factor-to-the-loss-of-mental-morale-in-the/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

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