JESUS

'The Jesus of the New Testament has at least one advantage over the Jesus of modern reconstruction - He is real. He is not a manufactured figure suitable as a point of support for ethical maxims, but a genuine Person whom a man can love. Men have loved Him through all the Christian centuries. And the strange thing is that despite all the efforts to remove Him from the pages of history, there are those who love Him still.'

J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism, p.116.

LANGUAGE

'...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 accordance with the facts.'

J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism, p.112.

MIRACLES

'The New Testament without the miracles would be far easier to believe. But the trouble is, it would not be worth believing.'

J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism, p.103.

CHURCH

'The fundamental fault of the modern Church is that she is busily engaged in an absolutely impossible task - she is busily engaged in calling the righteous to repentance...Even our Lord did not call the righteous to repentance, and probably we shall be no more successful than he.'

J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism, p.68.

SINNERS

'In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.'

Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Graham Beynon, Mirror, Mirror: Discover your true indentity in Christ, p.131.

CHRISTIANS

'...glorious ruins...'
Francis Schaeffer in Graham Beynon, Mirror, Mirror: Discovering your true identity in Christ, p.67.

HUMILITY & PRIDE

'I know that have cause to be humble and yet I do not know one half of that cause. I know I am proud and yet I do not know half of that pride.'

Robert Murray M'Cheyne in Graham Beynon, Mirror, Mirror: Discover your true identity in Christ, p.63.

JESUS

'Remember Jesus' harshest words were for those who tended to think well of themselves and had forgotten the sin inside them, and his warmest words were for those who recognized that sin and were honest about it.'

Graham Beynon, Mirror, Mirror: Discover your true identity in Christ, p.62.

HOMOSEXUALITY & JESUS

'Some people hold up their hands in holy horror at even hearing that so and so has such a problem. But if they knew how sympathetic the Lord is to the affliction, and how he stands ready to use it when it is given to him, they might be shocked out of their self-righteousness.

Jesus is far more daring in what he does and whom he employs than many exceedingly pious souls dare to believe. Perhaps that's why hypocrites don't like to get too near him. He's a shocker.'

William Still, 'A Pastoral Perspective on Our Fallen Sexuality' in David Searle (Ed.), Truth and Love, p.64.

HOMOSEXUALITY

'I have known those who were faced with extreme temptation to 'unnatural sin' who so resolutely refused to succumb to what fatally attracted them but which they knew was wrong, that I was astonished. But on reflection, I knew why their aesthetic, pastoral, and preaching gifts were signally used of God. That very drive, which could have ruined them was used, when transmogrified into an instrument of God, as the means of saving and blessing many.'

William Still, 'A Pastoral Perspective on Our Fallen Sexuality' in David Searle (Ed.), Truth and Love, p.63.