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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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
Francis August Schaeffer
Francis A. Schaeffer
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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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Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.
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Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.
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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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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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And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator.
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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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The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
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Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.
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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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Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.
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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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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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There are two main reasons why we may not be bringing forth the fruit we should. It may be because of ignorance, because we may never have been taught the meaning of the work of Christ for our present lives.
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Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
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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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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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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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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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