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We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.

Francis Schaeffer

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Francis Schaeffer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: May 15
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Philosopher
Theologian
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
Francis August Schaeffer
Francis A. Schaeffer
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The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral.
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Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
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Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.
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There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.
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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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It is only as we consciously bring each victory to His feet, and keep it there as we think of it - and especially as we speak of it - that we can avoid the pride of that victory, which can be worse than the sin over which we claim to have had the victory.
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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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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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There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.
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Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.
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As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more important. Despite our constant talk about the Lordship of Christ, we have narrowed its scope to a very small area of reality.
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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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If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.
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There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.
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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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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 difference between Christian thinking and the non-Christian philosopher has always been at this point. The non-Christian philosopher has always said that man is normal now, but biblical Christianity says he is abnormal now.
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