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In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Art, World

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

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Francis Schaeffer

Real, Made, God Exists

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It is only as we consciously bring each victory to His feet, and keep it there as we think of it - and especially as we speak of it - that we can avoid the pride of that victory, which can be worse than the sin over which we claim to have had the victory.

Francis Schaeffer

Pride, Thinking, Feet

Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.137, NavPress

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There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

Francis Schaeffer

Compassion, Understanding, Ugly

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The reality of living by faith as though we were already dead, of living by faith in open communion with God, and then stepping back into the external world as though we are already raised from the dead, this is not once for all, it is a matter of moment-by-moment faith, and living moment by moment. This morning's faith will never do for this noon. The faith of this noon will never do for suppertime . The faith of suppertime will never do for the next morning. Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

Francis Schaeffer

God, Morning, Communication

"The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent".

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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.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Art, Taken

"Art & the Bible: Two Essays".

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Christians, of all people, should not be destroyers. We should treat nature with an overwhelming respect. We may cut down a tree to build a house, or to make a fire to keep the family warm. But we should not cut down the tree just to cut down the tree. We may, if necessary, bark the cork tree in order to have the use of the bark. But what we should not do is to bark the tree simply for the sake of doing so, and let it dry and stand there a dead skeleton in the wind. To do so is not to treat the tree with integrity.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Integrity, Cutting

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... these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our environment: money and time-or to say it another way, greed and haste. The question is, or seems to be, are we going to have an immediate profit and an immediate saving of time, or are we going to do what we really should do as God's children?

Francis Schaeffer

Children, Two, Greed

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The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Spiritual, Loss

Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.12, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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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

People, Problem, Midst

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

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How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

Francis Schaeffer

Art, Should, Settings

Francis August Schaeffer (1973). “Art & the Bible: Two Essays”, Intervarsity Press

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The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

Francis Schaeffer

Spiritual, Loss, Victory

Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.108, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no personal-infinite God who has spoken, has no adequate universal to supply an adequate second boundary condition; and man being fallen is not only finite, but sinful. Thus man's pragmatically made choices have no reference point beyond human egotism. It is dog eat dog, man eat man, man eat nature.

Francis Schaeffer

Dog, Men, Choices

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In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.

Francis Schaeffer

Philosophy, Reading, Men

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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.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Religious, America

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Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

Francis Schaeffer

Affluence, Abundance

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Ignorance is in relationship to content; it is not just a spirit of ignorance. In verse 21 it speaks of "the truth in Jesus." Truth is content, truth has something to do with reason. Truth has something to do with the rational creature that God has made us. The dilemma here in the internal world is not just some sort of grey fog, it is in relationship to content.

Francis Schaeffer

God, Jesus, Ignorance

Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.97, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Art, Self

Francis August Schaeffer (1973). “Art & the Bible: Two Essays”, Intervarsity Press

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The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Moving, Imagination

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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!

Francis Schaeffer

God, Way, Spirituality

Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.25, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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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.

Francis Schaeffer

God, Pain, Shadow

Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.141, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview... I think the thing we're waiting for is a genius to come forth who can either make a new symbol system which is still modern, or more properly, as symbol systems don't come overnight, a group of people to modify the symbol systems of our day, so that we can use them for our Christian message without a disadvantage.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Thinking, People

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The overall way of thinking in the United States has shifted away from basic Biblical values, and the media share in the responsibility for this change.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Religious, Responsibility

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The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect. The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady romanticizes her cat (that is, she reads human reactions into it). This is wrong because it is not true. When you drive the axe into the tree when you need firewood, you are not cutting down a person; you are cutting down a tree. But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize God made it and it deserves respect because He made is as a tree.

Francis Schaeffer

Cat, Cutting, Tree

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The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once we understand that Christianity is true to what is there, true to the ultimate environment - the infinite, personal God who is really there - then our minds are freed. We can pursue any question and can be sure that we will not fall off the end of the earth.

Francis Schaeffer

Fall, Dragons, Mind

Francis August Schaeffer (1973). “Art & the Bible: Two Essays”, Intervarsity Press

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Born: January 30, 1912
Died: May 15, 1984
Occupation: Theologian
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