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In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.
— Arthur Machen
For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
— Arthur Machen
I can't die now, I have so much work to do.
— John Gresham Machen
Modern culture is a tremendous force.
— John Gresham Machen
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
— John Gresham Machen
If 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 Machen
Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.
— John Gresham Machen
I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.
— John Gresham Machen
It is impossible to be a true soldier of Jesus Christ and not fight.
— John Gresham Machen
A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.
— John Gresham Machen
Light may seem at times to be an impertinent intruder, but it is always beneficial in the end.
— John Gresham Machen
Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.
— John Gresham Machen
The church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man.
— J. Gresham Machen
Reading is Intriguing...it can take you on a great Adventure!
— M. Ann Machen Pritchard
This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy.
— Arthur Machen
If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.
— John Gresham Machen
Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
— John Gresham Machen
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.
— J. Gresham Machen
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
— Arthur Machen
Silence is not weakness and decency is not pride
— Arthur Machen
I dream in fire but work in clay.
— Arthur Machen
We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.
— Arthur Machen
It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it.
— J. Gresham Machen
Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.
— John Gresham Machen
God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.
— John Gresham Machen
The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.
— J. Gresham Machen
The woods hung dark on the hills; above, the sky violet, specked with minute feathery clouds, white as snowflakes.
— Arthur Machen
He knew then how the dull flesh of man can be like fire
— Arthur Machen
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
— Arthur Machen
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
Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.
— John Gresham Machen
Old stories often turn out to be true.
— Arthur Machen
Then you may have sheer clotted nonsense; I once chased Julius Caesar all over London to get his recipe for curried eggs.
— Arthur Machen
Stay the course.
— John Gresham Machen
We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?
— Arthur Machen