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...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.

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Francis Schaeffer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: May 15
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Philosopher
Theologian
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Germantown
Philadelphia
Francis August Schaeffer
Francis A. Schaeffer
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Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
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Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles. But people with more understanding realize that their presuppositions should be chosen after a careful consideration of what world-view is true.
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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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This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.
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Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital 'T.' Truth about total reality, not just about religious things. Biblical Christianity is Truth concerning total reality - and the intellectual holding of that total Truth and then living in the light of that Truth.
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Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important doctrinal teachings of the Word of God when inerrancy is gone.
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To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.
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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.
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So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.
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Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.
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We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.
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Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.
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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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In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.
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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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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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Belief does not change what is.
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The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
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To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.
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God has ordained the state as a delegated authority it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.
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