J. Gresham Machen

Christianity is founded upon the Bible. It bases upon the Bible both its thinking and its life. Liberalism on the other hand is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men.

—J. Gresham Machen

Christian experience is rightly used when it helps to convince us that the events narrated in the New Testament actually did occur.

—J. Gresham Machen

Whether we like it or not, churches are founded upon a creed; they are organized for the propagation of a message.

—J. Gresham Machen

The work which has been intrusted to Christ is nothing less than that of reconciling the creation unto God.

—J. Gresham Machen

To have faith in Christ means to cease trying to win God’s favor by one’s own character.

—J. Gresham Machen

The whole of life, including business and all of social relations, must be obedient to the law of love.

—J. Gresham Machen

While we are settling the date of Jesus’ birth, the world is doing without its Christmas message.

—J. Gresham Machen

When I think what an aid tobacco is to friendship and Christian patience, I have sometimes regretted that I never began to smoke.

—J. Gresham Machen

Tolerance, to me, does not mean merely tolerance for what I hold to be good, but also tolerance for what I hold to be abominably bad.

—J. Gresham Machen

[Jesus] was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.

—J. Gresham Machen

The very existence of the Christian church is a mighty testimony to the resurrection of our Lord.

—J. Gresham Machen

A low view of law brings legalism into religion; a high view of law makes man a seeker after grace. Pray that the high view may prevail.

—J. Gresham Machen

Why should we be indignant about slanders directed against a human friend, while at the same time we are patient about the basest slanders directed against our God?

—J. Gresham Machen

A man cannot possibly be an “evangelical” or a “conservative” (or, as he himself would say, simply a Christian) and regard the Cross of Christ as a trifle.

—J. Gresham Machen

[Historic Christianity] provides for the individual a refuge from all the fluctuating currents of human opinion.

—J. Gresham Machen

A cardinal doctrine of modern liberalism is that the world’s evil may be overcome by the world’s good; no help is thought to be needed from outside the world.

—J. Gresham Machen

A new and more powerful proclamation of the law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour…

—J. Gresham Machen

The things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding.

—J. Gresham Machen

The modern liberals, on the other hand, say that Jesus is God not because they think high of Jesus, but because they think desperately low of God.

—J. Gresham Machen

A deadly vagueness gradually affects the church’s witness.

—J. Gresham Machen

What the Apostle is concerned to deny is any intrusion of human merit into the work by which salvation is obtained.

—J. Gresham Machen

The truth is that the Bible’s picture of Jesus possesses a wonderful unity.

—J. Gresham Machen

The narration of the facts is history; the narration of the facts with the meaning of the facts is doctrine.

—J. Gresham Machen

[Christianity] transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the human will, but by telling a story…

—J. Gresham Machen

The church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man.

—J. Gresham Machen

Our Lord has died for us, and surely we must not deny Him for favor of men.

—J. Gresham Machen

What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me.

—J. Gresham Machen

There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics.

—J. Gresham Machen

It’s through the little sins that Satan gains an entrance into our lives.

—J. Gresham Machen

[Faith] involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge.

—J. Gresham Machen