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If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.
Francis Schaeffer
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Francis Schaeffer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: May 15
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Francis August Schaeffer
Francis A. Schaeffer
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We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their origin-who they are. God tells man who he is. God tells us that He created man in His image. So man is something wonderful.
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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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The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces instead of totals.
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The church is something beautiful
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Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.
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Belief does not change what is.
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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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Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.
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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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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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In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in our society. We have been relegated to a cultural backwater, where we are meant to paddle around content in the knowledge that we are merely allowed to exist.
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Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.
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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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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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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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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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Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.
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The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.
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There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.
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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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