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> [The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our souls, irrespective of whether we trouble to think and talk Christianly, and therefore theologically, about anything we or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/the-bland-assumption-that-the-church-s-life-will-continue-to-be/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

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## More by Harry Blamires

> [“May God even yet deliver us from the sin of loyalty!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/may-god-even-yet-deliver-us-from-the-sin-of-loyalty/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [There is no longer a Christian mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/there-is-no-longer-a-christian-mind/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“If only there were an inhabited field of discourse where Christians were thinking Christianly about everything, there would be something nutritive for Christian minds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/if-only-there-were-an-inhabited-field-of-discourse-where-christians/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“...the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/the-wise-words-of-a-friend-and-guide-rang-in-my-head-how-would-you/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/the-christian-mind-has-succumbed-to-the-secular-drift-with-a-degree/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“In so far as the church nurtures the schizophrenic Christian, the church herself contributes to the very process of dismemberment which it is her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/in-so-far-as-the-church-nurtures-the-schizophrenic-christian-the/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“And here, right at the start, one encounters a new difficulty. For the task of reestablishing the notion of God's authority is obstructed not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/and-here-right-at-the-start-one-encounters-a-new-difficulty-for-the/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [ “We ourselves have so long ceased to use it \[the Christian worldview\] except for the discussion of the moral, the liturgical, or the spiritual,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/we-ourselves-have-so-long-ceased-to-use-it-the-christian-worldview/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [ “Looking back to \[Christendom's\] youth, we recall the emotional stirrings, the deep sense of Christian purpose, when a temple, say, challenged the existing social… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/looking-back-to-christendom-s-youth-we-recall-the-emotional-stirrings/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“When a man falls in love, he sees the beloved in an idealized vision which to the rest of the world seems unjustified by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/when-a-man-falls-in-love-he-sees-the-beloved-in-an-idealized-vision/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“The Christian mind is the prerequisite of Christian thinking, and Christian thinking is the prerequisite for Christian action.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/the-christian-mind-is-the-prerequisite-of-christian-thinking-and/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“The collision between a Christian mind and a solidly earthbound culture ought to be a violent one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/the-collision-between-a-christian-mind-and-a-solidly-earthbound/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/there-is-nothing-in-our-experience-however-trivial-worldly-or-even/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/if-christians-cannot-communicate-as-thinking-beings-they-are-reduced/)

[Harry Blamires](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-blamires/)

> [“An important contributory factor to the loss of mental morale in the church has been a misguided conception of Christian charity. It has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-blamires/an-important-contributory-factor-to-the-loss-of-mental-morale-in-the/)

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