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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.

Francis Schaeffer

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Francis Schaeffer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: May 15
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Germantown
Philadelphia
Francis August Schaeffer
Francis A. Schaeffer
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