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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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Today the separation of church and state in America is used to silence the church. When Christians speak out on issues, the hue and cry from the humanist state and media is that Christians, an all religions, are prohibited from speaking since there is a separation of church and state.
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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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Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.
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The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.
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The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.
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As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does not mean that we should automatically accept that worldview. Good art heightens the impact of that worldview, but it does not make it true.
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Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
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There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.
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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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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 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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There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.
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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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Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.
Francis Schaeffer
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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.
Francis Schaeffer
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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.
Francis Schaeffer
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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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We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.
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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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Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.
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