"In passing, we should note this curious mark……" — Francis Schaeffer
"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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Francis Schaeffer
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110 Quotes by Francis Schaeffer
Francis Schaeffer has 110 quotes on this site.
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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real…
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This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian.
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Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.
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Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
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As evangelical Christians, we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life…
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Killing of animals for food is one thing, but on the other hand they do not exist simply as things…
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Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had…
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Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never…
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If you want a significant man, with absolutes, morality, and meaning, then you must have what the Bible insists upon…
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If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or…
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Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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