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 MachenIf all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.
John Gresham MachenModern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel
John Gresham MachenI 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 MachenWhat is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.
John Gresham MachenThe truth is that the materialistic paternalism of the present day, if allowed to go on unchecked, will rapidly make of America one huge "Main Street," where spiritual adventure will be discouraged and democracy will be regarded as consisting in the reduction of all mankind to the proportions of the narrowest and least gifted of the citizens. God grant that there may come a reaction, and that the great principles of Anglo-Saxon liberty may be rediscovered before it is too late!
John Gresham Machen