John Gresham Machen Citas

• La institución de educación cristiana más importante no es el púlpito ni la escuela, por importantes que sean esas instituciones, sino la familia cristiana. Y esa institución en gran medida ha dejado de hacer su trabajo.

  John Gresham Machen

  Family, Christian, School

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

  John Gresham Machen

  Enemy, Culture, Modern

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• Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end ... It is when men have felt compelled to take a stand against error that they have risen to the really great heights in the celebration of the truth

  John Gresham Machen

  Book, Teaching, Men

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• 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

  John Gresham Machen

  Children, Progress, Theology

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• It is impossible to be a true soldier of Jesus Christ and not fight.

  John Gresham Machen

  Jesus, Fighting, Soldier

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• Let us not fear the opposition of men; every great movement in the Church from Paul down to modern times has been criticized on the ground that it promoted scensoriousness and intolerance and disputing. Of course the gospel of Christ, in a world of sin and doubt will cause disputing; and if does not cause disputing and arrouse bitter opposition, that is a fairly sure sign that it is not being faithfully proclaimed.

  John Gresham Machen

  Men, Doubt, Church

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• Según la creencia cristiana, el hombre existe por amor a Dios; según la iglesia liberal, en la práctica si no en teoría, Dios existe por amor al hombre.

  John Gresham Machen

  Dios, Cristiano, Hombres

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.154, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Dios es el soberano de la historia. El Imperio Romano fue un instrumento en sus manos. Y también lo son las naciones del mundo moderno.

  John Gresham Machen

  God, Time, Hands

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• 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

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• Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.

  John Gresham Machen

  Children, School, Years

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.14, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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

  John Gresham Machen

  World, Christianity, Eternity

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• If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

  John Gresham Machen

  Educación, Niños, Dar

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

  John Gresham Machen

  Corazón, Hombres, Ley

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• A Christian boy or girl can learn mathematics, for example, from a teacher who is not a Christian; and truth is truth however learned. But while truth is truth however learned, the bearing of truth, the meaning of truth, the purpose of truth, even in the sphere of mathematics, seem entirely different to the Christian from that which they seem to the non-Christian; and that is why a truly Christian education is possible only when Christian conviction underlies not a part but all, of the curriculum of the school.

  John Gresham Machen

  Girl, Christian, Teacher

  John Gresham Machen (1951). “What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses”

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• A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.’ (1923)

  John Gresham Machen

  School, Mean, Free Education

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.14, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Estoy tan agradecido por la obediencia activa de Cristo. No hay esperanza sin ella.

  John Gresham Machen

  Thankfulness, Christ, Obedience

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• A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.

  John Gresham Machen

  Views, Law, Grace

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• 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.

  John Gresham Machen

  Sound, Phrases, Matter

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.1, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

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  Moving, Army, Empires

  John Gresham Machen (1951). “What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses”

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• 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. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?

  John Gresham Machen

  Facts, Needs, News

  John Gresham Machen (1965). “The Christian faith in the modern world”, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.

  John Gresham Machen

  Divorce, Effort, Intellectual

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• In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.

  John Gresham Machen

  Fighting, Men, Important

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• El paganismo es esa visión de la vida que encuentra el objetivo más elevado de la existencia humana en el desarrollo sano, armonioso y gozoso de las facultades humanas existentes. Muy diferente es el ideal cristiano. El paganismo es optimista con respecto a la naturaleza humana sin ayuda, mientras que el cristianismo es la religión del corazón roto.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, Heart, Optimistic

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

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• I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the gospel on the street corners and at the ends of earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, Children, Consistency

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• Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.

  John Gresham Machen

  Hero, Doctrine

  John Gresham Machen (1963). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.89, Fig

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