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> [The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/the-early-church-didn-t-say-look-what-the-world-is-coming-to-they/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

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## More by Carl F. H. Henry

> [Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/our-generation-is-lost-to-the-truth-of-god-to-the-reality-of-divine/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/secularism-denounces-supernaturalism-and-promotes-a-nonreligious-or/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/the-early-church-didn-t-say-look-what-the-world-is-coming-to-they/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [The evangelical task primarily is the preaching of the Gospel, in the interest of individual regeneration by the supernatural grace of God, in such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/the-evangelical-task-primarily-is-the-preaching-of-the-gospel-in-the/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/we-must-confront-the-world-now-with-an-ethics-to-make-it-tremble-and/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/the-gospel-is-only-good-news-if-it-gets-there-in-time/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [“The gospel is only good news if it gets there on time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/the-gospel-is-only-good-news-if-it-gets-there-on-time/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/evangelical-agencies-with-ready-funding-may-have-too-little-depth-and/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/you-know-a-constellation-of-imperishable-values-live-by-the-mighty/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [Can anyone be arrogant when he stands beside the cross?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/can-anyone-be-arrogant-when-he-stands-beside-the-cross/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/the-whole-secret-of-abundant-living-can-be-summed-up-on-this-sentence/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [The gospel is good news only if it arrives in time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/the-gospel-is-good-news-only-if-it-arrives-in-time/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/whoever-lacks-the-initiative-to-read-books-stifles-his-own-selfhood/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/we-americans-are-not-god-s-covenant-people-america-has-in-any-event/)

[Carl F. H. Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-h-henry/)

> [The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-h-henry/the-surest-way-to-lose-democracy-is-to-take-it-for-granted-every/)

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