“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
