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• In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the outward forms whatever happens, even if God really is not there. But the opposite ought to be true of us, so that people can see that we demand the truth of what is there and that we are not dealing merely with platitudes. In other words, it should be understood that we take this question of truth and personality so seriously that if God were not there we would be among the first of those who had the courage to step out of the queue.

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  Christian, Opposites, People

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• Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.

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  Christian, Taken, Our Generation

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

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• Here we are told that Christ really lives in me, if I have accepted Christ as my Savior. In other words, we have the words of Jesus to the thief of the cross, 'Today thou wilt be with me in paradise.' Christ can say, 'Today thou wilt be with me in paradise,' and mean it. To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality. But at the same time, Christ, the same Christ who gives the promise just as definitely, that when I have accepted Christ as my savior, he lives in me.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Jesus, Mean

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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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  Art, Thinking, Ifs

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• ...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

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  God, Three, Spirituality

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.117, NavPress

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• Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

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  Believe, Order, World

  Francis August Schaeffer (1970). “Pollution and the death of man: the Christian view of ecology”

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• The church is something beautiful

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  Beautiful, Church, Something Beautiful

  Francis August Schaeffer (1971). “The church before the watching world: a practical ecclesiology”, IVP Books

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• We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.

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  Christian, Art, School

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• We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as God made it, out in the place where God made the ant to be. When we meet the ant on the sidewalk, we step over him. He is a creature, like ourselves; not made in the image of God, it is true, but equal with man as far as creation is concerned. The ant and the man are both creatures.

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  Men, House, Honor

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• The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper legal relationship - for example, to think of a man as legally lost, which he is, in the sight of a holy God - without thinking of him as a person. Saying this, we can suddenly see that much evangelism is not only sub-Christian, but subhuman - legalistic and impersonal.

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  God, Christian, Men

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.133, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

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  God, Mean, Church

  Francis August Schaeffer (1971). “True Spirituality”, p.152, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• There needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the personal emphasis within that legal concept. In the Church the elder is an office-bearer. But both the preaching elders and the ruling elders are "ministers," and the word "minister" is a personal relationship, it does not speak of dominance. There is to be order in the Church, but the preaching elder or the ruling elder is to be a minister, with a loving personal relationship with those who are before him, even when they are wrong and need admonition.

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  God, Order, Office

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.138, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• They are equal reality. They are two streams of present reality, both equally promised. The Christian dead are already with Christ now, and Christ really lives in the Christian. Christ lives in me. The Christ who was crucified, the Christ whose work is finished, the Christ who is glorified now, has promised (John 15) to bring forth fruit in the Christian, just as the sap of the vine brings forth the fruit in the branch.

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  God, Christian, Reality

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.92, NavPress

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• The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.

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  Christian, Religious, Rallying Point

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• Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

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  Christian, Art, Today

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

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• If men act upon the teaching of the Word of God, and as proportionately men live according to the teaching and commands of the Bible, so they have in practice a sufficient psychological base. I will find you a man dealing with psychological problems on the basis of the teaching of the Word of God, even if he never heard the word psychology, or does not know what it means.

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  God, Teaching, Mean

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• Killing of animals for food is one thing, but on the other hand they do not exist simply as things to be slaughtered. This is true of fishing, too. Many men fish and leave their victims to rot and stink. But what about the fish? Has he no rights - not to be romanticized as though he were a man - but real rights?

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  Real, Men, Animal

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

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• Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

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  War, Godly, People

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

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• Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.

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  God, Jesus, Reality

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