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

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

John Gresham Machen

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“Pain should not be wasted.”
“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
“The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.”
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are things in us we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when we go to a place. We have covered a stretch of our life no matter how brief it may have been but by traveling to ourselves we must confront our own loneliness. And isnâ€™t it so that everything we do is done out of fear of our loneliness? Isnâ€™t that why we renounce all the things we will regret at the end of our life?”
“These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.”
“You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises to the surface of the mind to replace what you want to believe.”
“People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.”
“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.”

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