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Francis Schaeffer Inspirational Quotes (86)

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Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.
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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
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The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.
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Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.
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Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.
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Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.
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Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.
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True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.
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A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.
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The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.
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The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.
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There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.
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The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.
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The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral.
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The modern concept of separation is an argument for a total separation of religion from the state. The consequence of the acceptance of the doctrine leads to the removal of religion as an influence in civil government.
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... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
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We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not go to the opposite extreme of seeing them romantically. To do either is to fail to understand who men really are--creatures made in the image of God but fallen.
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Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.
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And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator.
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The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
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Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air
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Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.
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There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.
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What we, the Christian community, have to do is to refuse men the right to ravish our land, just as we refuse them the right to ravish our women to insist that somebody accepts a little less profit by not exploiting nature.
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