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The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

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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Always
People
Surrounding
Central
Midst
Circumstances

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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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Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.
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If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose and significance, love, motions of morality and rationality, beauty and verbal communication-are ultimately unfulfillable and thus meaningless.
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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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Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that all sin can be explained merely on the basis of conditioning.
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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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Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.
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The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
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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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We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not go to the opposite extreme of seeing them romantically. To do either is to fail to understand who men really are--creatures made in the image of God but fallen.
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If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.
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The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.
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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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