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The church is something beautiful

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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You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.
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Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.
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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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We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.
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In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.
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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 would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.
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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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