List of John Gresham Machen Quotes

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

Conservative New Testament Studies Could Also Provide An Intellectually Satisfying Alternative To German Biblical Criticism And To The Liberal Theology That Accompanied It

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.

I See With Greater And Greater Clearness That Consistent Christianity Is The Easiest Christianity To Defend

Afternoon Classes - That Evil Invention!

I Can't Die Now, I Have So Much Work To Do.

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.

Certainly It Does Make The Greatest Possible Difference What We Think About God; The Knowledge Of God Is The Very Basis Of Religion.

Light May Seem At Times To Be An Impertinent Intruder, But It Is Always Beneficial In The End.

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.

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.

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!