Francis Schaeffer Quotes

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• Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Demand, Action, Reflexes

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

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• If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.

  Francis Schaeffer

  World, Christianity, Shows

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• No work of art is more important than the Christian's life, and every Christian is called to be an artist in this sense... The Christian's life is to be a thing of truth and also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, Important

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

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• Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Judging, Community

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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. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. 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.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Real, Mean, Men

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

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• The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually corporately, tending to do the Lord’s work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Jesus, Real, People

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• Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Mean, Men, Purpose

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

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• There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every point of view an equal chance to be heard. And it works fairly well - unless you are a Christian.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Views

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• One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

  Francis Schaeffer

  People, Conservative, Injustice

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

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• God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Evil, Justice, Doe

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• If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Children, Men, Issues

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

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• Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Years, Church, World

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• If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Mean, Winning

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

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• The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Heart, Men, Rebellion

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

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• We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Government, Views, World

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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.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Religious, Biblical, Reality

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• This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Faith, Christian, Age

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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.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Stress, Mind, Scripture

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

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• Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Art, Creativity, Godly

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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.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Men, Being Thankful

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

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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.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Practice, Sound Doctrine, Return

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• All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, God's Creation, Bears

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2013). “The Mark of the Christian”, p.15, InterVarsity Press

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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.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Spiritual, Believe

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• If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Government, Finals, Made

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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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