“The truth is that the life-purpose of Jesus discovered by modern liberalism is not the life purpose of the real Jesus, but merely represents those elements in the teaching of Jesus--isolated and misinterpreted--which happen to agree with the modern program.… — 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
“For us Jesus does not merely place His fingers in the ears and say, “Be opened”; for us He does not merely say “Arise… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“It is true that historic Christianity is in conflict at many points with the collectivism of the present day; it does emphasize, against the… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“Christianity cannot subsist unless men know what Christianity is; and the fair and logical thing is to learn what Christianity is, not from its… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
![“Christianity cannot subsist unless men know what Christianity is; and the fair and logical thing is to learn what Christianity is, not from its opponents, but from those who themselves are Christians. That method of procedure would be the only fair method in the case of any movement. [...] Men…” quote by J. Gresham Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/230/j-gresham-machen-22117_christianity_christianity-cannot-subsist-unless-men-k_1479917.jpg)