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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.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Christianity, Intellect

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

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• I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Running, Atheist, Believe

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

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  Christian, Hands, Majority

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• Belief does not change what is.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Doe, Belief

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• Sadly enough, there is a kind of an anti-intellectualism among many Christians: spirituality is falsely pitted against intellectual comprehension as though they stood in a dichotomy. Such anti-intellectualism cuts away at the very heart of the Christian message. Of course, there is a false intellectualism which does destroy the work of the Holy Spirit. But it does not arise when men wrestle honestly with honest questions and then see that the Bible has the answers. This does not oppose true spirituality.

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  Christian, Heart, Cutting

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• Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important doctrinal teachings of the Word of God when inerrancy is gone.

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  Teaching, Important, Church

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• We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.

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  Stress, Mind, Scripture

  Francis August Schaeffer (1972). “The new super-spirituality”, IVP Books

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• We as Bible-believing evangelical Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman's discussion. It is a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Believe

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• No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.

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  Christian, Rome, Judging

  "How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture".

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• Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.

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  Practice, Sound Doctrine, Return

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• Today the separation of church and state is America is used to silence the church... The way the concept is used today is totally reversed from the original intent... It is used today as a false political dictum in order to restrict the influence of Christian ideas... To have suggested the state separated from religion and religious influence would have amazed the Founding Fathers.

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  Christian, Religious, Father

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• Christianity is not just involved with "salvation", but with the total man in the total world. The Christian message begins with the existence of God forever, and then with creation. It does not begin with salvation. We must be thankful for salvation, but the Christian message is more than that. Man has a value because he is made in the image of God.

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  Christian, Men, Being Thankful

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.89, InterVarsity Press

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• Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

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  Biblical, Compassion, World

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• In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

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  Birthday, Age, Aging

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• Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air

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  Men, Air, Feet

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• I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.

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  Insanity, Insane, Switzerland

  Francis August Schaeffer (1976). “How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture”, Good News Pub

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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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  Finals, Moral, Standards

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”

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• If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

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  Judging, Absolutes, Ifs

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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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  Religious, Biblical, Reality

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• He who loses the arts loses the culture.

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  Art, Culture, Loses

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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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  Character, Men, Expression

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• True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Grace, Spirituality

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• If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

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  Men, Ideas, Judging

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• You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.

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  God, Would Be, Shifting

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• The purpose of apologetics is not just to win an argument or a discussion, but that people with whom we are in contact may become Christians and then live under the Lordship of Christ in the whole spectrum of life.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Winning, People

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