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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 provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

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  Christian, Answers, Whole

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

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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.

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  Philosophy, Men, Views

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

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• 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.

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  Men, Ideas, Judging

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• He who loses the arts loses the culture.

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  Art, Culture, Loses

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

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  Spiritual, Adultery, Apostasy

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

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• If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.

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  Way, Creation, Made

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• Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

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  God, Communication, Reality

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.78, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

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  Christian, Jesus, Taught

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• Hudson Taylor said, "The Lord's work done in the Lord's way will never fail to have the Lord's provision." ...The Lord's work done in human energy is not the Lord's work any longer. It is something, but it is not the Lord's work.

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  God, Energy, Done

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.105, NavPress

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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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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Church, Generations

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

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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.

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  Christian, Winning, People

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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.!

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  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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• 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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• 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.

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

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  Demand, Confrontation

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• Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.

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  Healing, Cry, Sociological

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

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• Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.

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  Christian, Men, Law

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.104, InterVarsity Press

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• Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

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  Men, Intellectual, Mind

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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.

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  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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• Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him or her the framework for total truth, rooted in the Creator's existence and in the Bible's teaching, so that in each step of the formal learning process the student will understand what is true and what is false and why it is true or false.

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  Christian, Teaching, Giving

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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.

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  Sight, People, Important

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• The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.

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  Men, Soul, Important

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.37, InterVarsity Press

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