“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. In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“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… — 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… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“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… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“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… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“The true reason why faith is given such an exclusive place by the New Testament, so far as the attainment of salvation is concerned,… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“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
