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Men Quotes by Francis Schaeffer
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with…
- The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.
- We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not…
- Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and…
- Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air
- Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that…
- We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their…
- What we, the Christian community, have to do is to refuse men the right to ravish our land, just as we refuse them the right…
- Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
- But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who…
- We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook…
- 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…
- 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…
- If men act upon the teaching of the Word of God, and as proportionately men live according to the teaching and commands of the Bible,…
- The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper…
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