John Gresham Machen (1881-1937) was an American Presbyterian New Testament scholar and educator in the early 20th century.
J. Gresham Machen Quotes
The cardinal principle of unbelief is that miracles have never happened.
—J. Gresham Machen
The object of a truly religious faith is none other than God.
—J. Gresham Machen
The war is a horrid, unnatural kind of thing even in its least horrible aspects.
—J. Gresham Machen
Thus Dr. Scofield’s view of the Mosaic Law is rooted in a wrong view of sin.
—J. Gresham Machen
The modern liberal desires to produce upon the minds of simple Christians (and upon his own mind) the impression of some sort of continuity between modern liberalism and the thought and life of the great Apostle. But such an impression is altogether misleading.
—J. Gresham Machen
There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics, or that if you remove His theology – His beliefs about God and judgment, future woe for the wicked and future blessedness for the good – you can leave His ethical teaching intact.
—J. Gresham Machen
One before whom we could stand in our own merit without fear? He who will may be satisfied with such a God.
—J. Gresham Machen
The very center and core of the whole Bible is the doctrine of the grace of God…
—J. Gresham Machen
Persons who hold the same view of sin and retribution that Jesus held, to such persons alone, the beauty of Jesus is without flaw.
—J. Gresham Machen
What people need is the gospel, not directions for saving themselves but knowledge of how God has saved them.
—J. Gresham Machen
The glory of the atonement is not that there’s a change in us, rather it’s that there’s a change in the way God deals with us.
—J. Gresham Machen
While we are discussing the exact location of the churches of Galatia, men are perishing under the curse of the law.
—J. Gresham Machen
Our Lord came not to teach men that they were already sons of God, but to make them sons of God by his redeeming work.
—J. Gresham Machen