John Gresham Machen Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

• 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 faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, Heart, Optimistic

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.65, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• 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.

  John Gresham Machen

  Two, Doctrine, Elements

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.27, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.

  John Gresham Machen

  World, Christianity, Eternity

• 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.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, Long, Connections

• 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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