Quotes about Modern
According to modern liberalism, in other words, Jesus was the Founder of Christianity because He was the first Christian, and Christianity consists in maintenance of the religious life which Jesus instituted.
— J. Gresham Machen
Modern liberalism may be criticized (1) on the ground that it is un-Christian and (2) on the ground that it is unscientific. We shall concern ourselves here chiefly with the former line of criticism; we shall be interested in showing that despite the liberal use of traditional phraseology modern liberalism not only is a different religion from Christianity but belongs in a totally different class of religions.
— J. Gresham Machen
From every point of view, therefore, the problem in question is the most serious concern of the Church. What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.
— J. Gresham Machen
The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.
— Rainbow Rowell
Suddenly I had an epiphany: this system of larceny, corruption, and terror that I encountered firsthand in the confinement center is exactly the same system that has been adopted and perfected by modern progressivism and the Democratic Party.
— Dinesh D'Souza
I have had a deep conviction for many years that practical holiness and entire self-consecration to God are not sufficiently attended to by modern Christians in this country. Politics, or controversy, or party-spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us.
— JC Ryle
Despite what many modern educators would say, this is not a psychological disturbance brought on by violent television or chemical imbalance. Aggression is part of the masculine design; we are hardwired for it.
— John Eldredge
My soul just can't do life at the speed of smartphones. But I was asking it to; everybody's asking theirs to.
— John Eldredge
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
— Jacques Maritain
In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.
— Peter Kreeft
Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.
— JI Packer