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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.

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  Men, Christianity, Intellect

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

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• ‎People have presuppositions... By 'presuppositions' we mean the basic way that an individual looks at life- his worldview. The grid through which he sees the world. Presuppositions rest upon that which a person considers to be the truth of what exists. A person's presuppositions provide the basis for their values- and therefore the basis for their decisions.

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  Mean, People, Decision

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

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  Judging, Absolutes, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Being True

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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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• 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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• God's Word will never pass away, but looking back to the Old Testament and since the time of Christ, with tears we must say that because of lack of fortitude and faithfulness on the part of God's people, God's Word has many times been allowed to be bent, to conform to the surrounding, passing, changing culture of that moment rather than to stand as the inerrant Word of God judging the form of the world spirit and the surrounding culture of that moment. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may our children and grandchildren not say that such can be said about us.

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  Jesus, Children, Names

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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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• 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.

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  Doe, Belief

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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.

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  Christian, Religious, Views

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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.

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  Government, Finals, Made

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

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  Running, Atheist, Believe

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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.

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  Children, People, Understanding

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

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

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  Men, Air, Feet

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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.

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  Men, God's Creation, Bears

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

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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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