“It is true that historic Christianity is in conflict at many points with the collectivism of the present day; it does emphasize, against the claims of society, the worth of the individual soul. It provides for the individual a refuge… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world to be controlled by ideas which, by the resistless force of logic, prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion...What is… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share
“That view of the Cross, it cannot be denied, runs counter to the mind of the natural man. It is not, indeed, complicated or… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“It will hardly be wise to adopt the suggestion… that we must stop treating the little sins as though they were big sins. That suggestion means apparently, that we must not worry too much about the little sins, but must let them remain unmolested. With regard to such an expedient, it may be suggested that in the moral battle: we… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share
“But underlying that sweet and blessed communion of the Christian with his God there is a true knowledge of God. A communion with God… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“According to all the four Gospels, and according to all the supposed sources which modern criticism has tried to detect back of the four Gospels, Jesus put himself into his gospel; the gospel of Jesus was also a gospel about Jesus; the gospel that he preached was also a gospel that offered him as Savior. He did not say merely:… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share
“The true reason why faith is given such an exclusive place by the New Testament, so far as the attainment of salvation is concerned, over against love and over against everything else in man...is that faith means receiving something, not doing something or even being something. To say, therefore, that our faith saves us means that we do not save… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share
“The strange thing about Christianity was that it adopted an entirely different method. It transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“Involuntary organizations ought to be tolerant, but voluntary organizations, so far as the fundamental purpose of their existence is concerned, must be intolerant or… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“Christian experience is rightly used when it helps to convince us that the events narrated in the New Testament actually did occur; but it… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“In trying to remove from Christianity everything that could possibly be objected to in the name of science, in trying to bribe off the… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“The world is lying in misery, we ourselves are sinners, men are perishing in sin every day. The gospel is the sole means of… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“For Christians to influence the world with the truth of God's Word requires the recovery of the great Reformation doctrine of vocation. Christians are… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
