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Francis Schaeffer

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Francis Schaeffer

“Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.”

- Francis Schaeffer

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Francis Schaeffer

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

- Francis Schaeffer

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Francis Schaeffer

“Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.”

- Francis Schaeffer

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Francis Schaeffer

“Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.”

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Francis Schaeffer

“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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Francis Schaeffer

“I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.”

- Francis Schaeffer

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Francis Schaeffer

“I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.”

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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.”

- Francis Schaeffer

Source/Notes: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west (1982 edition)

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Francis Schaeffer

“The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.”

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Francis Schaeffer

“History indicates that that at a certain point of economic breakdown people cease being concerned with individual liberties and are ready to accept regimentation. The danger is obviously greater when two main values so many people have are personal peace and affluence.”

- Francis Schaeffer

Source/Notes: How Should We Then Live : The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture (1976), p. 246

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Francis Schaeffer

“Now, not all the founding fathers were individually, personally, Christians. That certainly is true. But, nevertheless, they founded the country on the base that there is a God who is the Creator (now I come to the next central phrase) who gave the inalienable rights.”

- Francis Schaeffer

Source/Notes: A Christian Manifesto (1982)

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Francis Schaeffer

“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 communicated to us.”

- Francis Schaeffer

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Francis Schaeffer

“I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.”

- Francis Schaeffer

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Francis Schaeffer

“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.”

- Francis Schaeffer

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