‘As regards the great momentous questions of how to live, how to be clean, how to be straight, how to be pure, there is gross darkness in the world. As you come up the scale, and look at relationships between group and group, there is obviously the same conditions, and we have these great industrial and economic problems. On a still higher level, look at the relationships between nation and nation. This 20th Century, of all centuries, when we talk so much about our knowledge and enlightenment, is proving that the world is in a state of unutterable darkness with regard to the vital and fundamental problems...’
‘...You can turn to the greatest philosophers and thinkers, and again and again, you will find that they will never take you beyond analysis. They are very good at laying out the problem and showing you the various factors which operate, but when you ask them what is ultimately responsible for this, and what they propose to do, they leave you unanswered. Clearly they have nothing to say. There is obviously no light at all in this world, apart from the light that is provided by Christian people, and the Christian faith. That is no exaggeration. I am suggesting that if you want to be realistic, we just have to face that and realise that when our Lord spoke nearly 2,000 years ago, He not only spoke the simple startling truth about His own age, but He spoke the truth with regard to every age.’
Martin Lloyd-Jones
The problem isn't in Iraq or North Korea.. the problem is actually in here, in my heart and yours, that’s where war comes from —- one-to-one, family-to-family, city-to-city, country-to-country… and the solution is with Christ.
