57 Quotes by John Gresham Machen

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

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

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.

Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.

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 not merely all nations but also all of human thought.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

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.

The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.