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I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

Francis Schaeffer

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Francis Schaeffer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: May 15
Author
Philosopher
Theologian
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
Francis August Schaeffer
Francis A. Schaeffer
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Sin
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The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.
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The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
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If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.
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The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.
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The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.
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If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.
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Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.
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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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If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.
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We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state.
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One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.
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The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.
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The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.
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There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.
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