Christianity Quote by Francis Schaeffer

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

Francis Schaeffer

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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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As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more…

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Belief does not change what is.

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In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.

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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. Despite our constant talk about the Lordship of Christ, we have narrowed its scope to a very small area of reality. We have misunderstood the concept of the Lordship of Christ over the whole of…

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In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in our society. We have been relegated to a cultural backwater, where we are meant to paddle around content in the knowledge that we are merely allowed to exist.

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

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To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.

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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…

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If the church is what it should be, young people will be there. But they will not just 'be there' - they will be…

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With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each of us is not what God made us to be. Beyond each of us as individuals, human relationships are not what God meant them to be. And beyond that, nature is abnormal - the whole cause-and-effect…

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