Carl F. H. Henry Quotes

• The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Views, History, Church

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• The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse into paganism.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Christian, Religious, Loss

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• A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity

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  Passion, World Upside Down, Christianity

  Carl F. H. Henry (2003). “The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism”, p.16, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The evangelical task primarily is the preaching of the Gospel, in the interest of individual regeneration by the supernatural grace of God, in such a way that divine redemption can be recognized as the best solution of our problems, individual and social

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Grace, Tasks, Redemption

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• The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Responsibility, Secret, Ability

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• The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Long, Democracy, Advancement

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• Can anyone be arrogant when he stands beside the cross?

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Arrogant, Crosses

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• Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Book, Initiative

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• We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Biblical, America, People

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• We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Giving, World, Ethics

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• You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Sick, Soldier, Tin

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• Jesus Christ turns life right-side-up, and heaven outside-in.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Jesus, Heaven, Sides

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• The gospel is good news only if it arrives in time.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  News, Ifs, Good News

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• Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Christian, Religious, Organization

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• Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual motion, one-liners, and flashbulbs but on Christ.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Agency, Vision, Depth

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