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• The great distinction of a true Christian is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. How careful should he be, lest anything in his thoughts or feelings would be offensive to the Divine Guest.!

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Feelings

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.125, NavPress

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• Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Mean, Doe, Written

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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.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Character, Men, Expression

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• Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Demand, Confrontation

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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 one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Views

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• This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious liberty.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Law

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• In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Philosophy, Men, Views

  Francis Schaeffer (2013). “He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.4, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We must remember throughout our lives that in God's sight there are no little people and no little places. Only one thing is important: to be consecrated persons in God's place for us, at each moment.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Sight, People, Important

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• Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Answers, Whole

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.106, InterVarsity Press

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• Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Taught

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• When a man comes under the blood of Christ, his whole capacity as a man is refashioned. His soul is saved, yes, but so are his mind and his body. True spirituality means the lordship of Christ over the total man.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Mean, Men, Blood

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

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• Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer.

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  Christian, Hope, Jesus

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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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• Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles. But people with more understanding realize that their presuppositions should be chosen after a careful consideration of what world-view is true.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Children, People, Understanding

  "The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west".

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• The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.

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  Mean, Here I Am, People

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• Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Divorce, Giving

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.213, NavPress

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• Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Responsibility, Church, Generations

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.120, InterVarsity Press

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• But the fact that Christ as the bridegroom brings forth fruit through me as the bride, through the agency of the indwelling Holy Spirit by faith, opens the way for me as a Christian to begin to know in the present life the reality of the supernatural. This is where the Christian is to live. Doctrine is important, but it is not an end in itself. There is to be an experiential reality, moment by moment.

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  God, Christian, Reality

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Son, Sheep, Shepherds

  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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• When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ. Now it is covered and it is not honoring to the finished work of Jesus Christ to worry about it, as far as my relationship to God is concerned. Indeed, to worry about it is to do spite to the infinite value of the death of the Son of God. My fellowship with God is restored.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Jesus, Son

  "True Spirituality".

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• Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Spiritual, Adultery, Apostasy

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

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• Preaching the gospel without the Holy Spirit is to miss the entire point of the command of Jesus Christ for our era. In the area of "Christian activities" or "Christian service," how we are doing it is at least as important as what we are doing.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Jesus

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.64, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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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.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Communication, Men, Purpose

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• If the church is what it should be, young people will be there. But they will not just 'be there' - they will be there with the blowing of horns and the clashing of high-sounding cymbals, and they will come dancing with flowers in their hair.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Flower, Hair, People

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