Josiah Strong Quotes

• It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and, second, civil liberty.

  Josiah Strong

  Christian, Spiritual, Writing

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• El anglosajón se ha establecido en climas totalmente diversos -Canadá, Sudáfrica e India- y, a través de varias generaciones, ha conservado las características esenciales de su raza. No es, por supuesto, superior a las influencias climáticas; pero incluso en climas cálidos, es probable que conserve su vigor agresivo el tiempo suficiente para suplantar a razas ya debilitadas.

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  Race, Long, Generations

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• There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.

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  Taken, Land, World

  Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”

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• The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

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  Cities, Riches, Poverty

  Josiah Strong (1885). “Our country: its possible future and its present crisis”

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• The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

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  Civilization, Cities, Peculiar

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?

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  People, What If, World

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

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  Mean, Europe, Race

  Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”

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• As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

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  Cities, Worst

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

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  Europe, Race, Development

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ.

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  Church, Needs, Christianity

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• Nuestra aristocracia, a diferencia de la europea, está abierta a todos.

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  Europe, Aristocracy, Scientism

  Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

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• Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

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  Great Business, Disaster, Distress

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• Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

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  Country, Land, Population

  Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

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• No sólo aumenta la proporción de pobres con el crecimiento de la ciudad, sino que su condición se hace más miserable.

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  Cities, Growth, Doe

  Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

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• It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

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  Ideas, Two, United States

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

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  Change, Europe, Earthquakes

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• La ciudad es el centro neurálgico de nuestra civilización. También es el centro de las tormentas.

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  Civilization, Cities, Storm

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• Mucho antes de que lleguen los mil millones, la poderosa tendencia centrífuga, inherente a esta población y reforzada en Estados Unidos, se afirmará.

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  Pregnancy, Long, United States

  Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”

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