J. Gresham Machen — Christianity & Liberalism: Legacy Edition

According to that fundamental principle, language is truthful, not when the meaning attached to the words by the speaker, but when the meaning intended to be produced in the mind of the particular person addressed, is in…

It is a pitiable cowardice to try to overcome fear by ignoring the facts. We do not become masters of our fate by saying that we are. And such blatancy of pride, futile as it is, is not even noble in its futility. It wou…

When will men see that nothing but the truth can satisfy the longing of the human soul? Religious conceptions which are merely useful and not eternally true are not useful at all. But as it is, a deadly blight of pragmat…

In the Bible there is that which meets every need of man, which answers every mood, which speaks to every heart.

The movement designated as liberalism is regarded as liberal only by its friends; to its opponents it seems to involve a narrow ignoring of many relevant facts.

The modern world represents in some respects an enormous improvement over the world in which our ancestors lived; but in other respects it exhibits a lamentable decline. The improvement appears in the physical conditions…