HAROLD O. J. BROWN QUOTES

evangelical theologian (1933-2007)

When the world stops booing the church and begins to applaud it, its enthusiasm ought to arouse the Christian's suspicion.

HAROLD O. J. BROWN

The Protest of a Troubled Protestant


Christian faith must be personal in the sense that each person individually understands the historic faith and personally commits himself to it, but not in the sense that he decides what it should be.

HAROLD O. J. BROWN

The Protest of a Troubled Protestant


Choice is nothing in itself; everything depends on what one is able to choose.

HAROLD O. J. BROWN

"The Language of Life"

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The Christian church is not a 'safe place' where one can escape from the world, but a 'dangerous place' where one must confront the world.

HAROLD O. J. BROWN

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The church is not a religious club for the morally superior, but a community of sinners saved by grace.

HAROLD O. J. BROWN

"The Sensate Culture"


The most dangerous enemies of Christianity are not the atheists, but those who claim to be Christians but deny the essential truths of the faith.

HAROLD O. J. BROWN

Heresies


The Bible is not a book of science, but it is a book that has scientific implications, and when science is properly understood, it supports the Bible.

HAROLD O. J. BROWN

Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures


A nontheological faith cannot explain itself, but a too theological faith loses contact with the reason for its existence.

HAROLD O. J. BROWN

Heresies


If we want our worship, or attempts at worship, to mean anything, we have to strive to conform it to the nature and will of God, and not to the mood or taste of the century.

HAROLD O. J. BROWN

The Protest of a Troubled Protestant


Christianity is not primarily a religion of morality, but a religion of grace.

HAROLD O. J. BROWN

"The Sensate Culture"


The Bible is the Word of God written in the words of men.

HAROLD O. J. BROWN

Heresies