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title: 'Machen on Maturing in Child-Like Faith'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-06-18
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-machen-on-maturing-in-child-like-faith
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# Machen on Maturing in Child-Like Faith

“The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith.” — [**J. Gresham Machen**](/authors/j-gresham-machen), *What is Faith?* (1925), p. 96