Francis Schaeffer Quotes

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• If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has…
• This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian.
• 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…
• Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.
• Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
• As evangelical Christians, we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more important.…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• If you want a significant man, with absolutes, morality, and meaning, then you must have what the Bible insists upon - that God will judge…
• 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…
• Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.
• 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…
• 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.…
• God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to…
• The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.
• Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.
• 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…
• 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…
• There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

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