#john gresham machen

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

After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster Confession… and discovers that in doing so one has turned from shallow modern phrases to a “dead orthodoxy” that is pulsating with life in every word. In such orthodoxy there is life enough to set the whole world aglow with Christian love.

The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith

The New Testament without the miracles would be far easier to believe. But the trouble is, would it be worth believing?

According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel.

The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.