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• The first chapters of the Bible tell us of the sin of man. The guilt of that sin had rested upon every single one of us, it guilt and its terrible results..but..it also tells us of something greater still; it tells us of the grace of the offended God.

  John Gresham Machen

  Men, Grace, Guilt

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• The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.

  John Gresham Machen

  Sound, Phrases, Matter

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.1, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• 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 although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.

  John Gresham Machen

  Divorce, Effort, Intellectual

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• Light may seem at times to be an impertinent intruder, but it is always beneficial in the end.

  John Gresham Machen

  Light, May, Ends

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.1, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• And God grant that His fire be not quenched! God save us from any smoothing over of these questions in the interests of a hollow pleasantness; God grant that great questions of principle may never rest until they are stettled right! It is out of such times of questioning that great revivals come. God grant that it may be so today! Controversy of the right sort is good; for out of such controversy, as Church history and Scripture alike teach, there comes the salvation of souls.

  John Gresham Machen

  Fire, Soul, Church

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• If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.

  John Gresham Machen

  Creeds, Uncertain, Contradictory

  John Gresham Machen (1963). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.34, Fig

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• The truth is that the materialistic paternalism of the present day, if allowed to go on unchecked, will rapidly make of America one huge "Main Street," where spiritual adventure will be discouraged and democracy will be regarded as consisting in the reduction of all mankind to the proportions of the narrowest and least gifted of the citizens. God grant that there may come a reaction, and that the great principles of Anglo-Saxon liberty may be rediscovered before it is too late!

  John Gresham Machen

  Spiritual, Adventure, America

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• Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

  John Gresham Machen

  Thinking, Differences, Doe

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.55, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend

  John Gresham Machen

  Christianity, Consistent, Clearness

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• 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 turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.

  John Gresham Machen

  Jesus, Age, Modern

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• I can't die now, I have so much work to do.

  John Gresham Machen

  Dies, I Can

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• Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

  John Gresham Machen

  Class, Evil, Afternoon

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• Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with any propriety be called "God", it does seem antecedently very improbable that weak and limited creatures of a day, such as we are, should discover Him by our own efforts.... who could be discovered in that way would hardly be worth discovering. I think we ought to stick to that principle rather firmly. I think we ought to be rather sure that we cannot know God unless God has been pleased to reveal Himself to us.

  John Gresham Machen

  Thinking, Effort, May

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• 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 as well as my own studies

  John Gresham Machen

  Study, Instruction, Enjoy

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• Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

  John Gresham Machen

  Biblical, Criticism, Alternatives

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