John Gresham Machen Quotes

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• Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
• I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend
• Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it
• In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction…
• Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we…
• Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.
• Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the…
• If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.
• The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade…
• I can't die now, I have so much work to do.
• I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.
• What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.
• Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But…
• The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will…
• In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least…
• A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times;…
• Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human…
• What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me.…
• Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state,…
• Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

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