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The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.

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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Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.
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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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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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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 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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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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Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.
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When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.
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Our trusting the Lord does not mean that there are not times of tears. I think it is a mistake as Christians to act as though trusting the Lord and tears are not compatible.
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... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
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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 church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.
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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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Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
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I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.
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