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Francis Schaeffer

Francis August Schaeffer (January 30, 1912 – May 15, 1984) was an American Evangelical Christian theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor. He is best known for establishing the L'Abri community in Switzerland. Opposed to theological modernism, Schaeffer promoted a more historic Protestant faith and a presuppositional approach to Christian apologetics, which he believed would answer the questions of the age.

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The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral.

Character, Commands, Expression, Men, Morality

Belief does not change what is.

Belief, Change, Doe

Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

Communication, Created, God, Reality

A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.

Capacity, Christian, Home, Open, Practiced, Responsibility

There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.

Come, Home, Long, Real

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

People, Conservative, Injustice, Greatest, Young

True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.

Christ, Grace, Jesus, Spirituality, True

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

Believe, Believing, Greatest, Perfect, Sometimes

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

Art, Should, Settings, Artist, Work, Make

Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.

Associations, Christian, Our Generation, Taken, Tremendous, Weakness

The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.

Christian, Creative, Imagination, Moving, World

Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him or her the framework for total truth, rooted in the Creator's existence and in the Bible's teaching, so that in each step of the formal learning process the student will understand what is true and what is false and why it is true or false.

Christian, Giving, Isolating, Teaching, Total, Understand

The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect. The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady romanticizes her cat (that is, she reads human reactions into it). This is wrong because it is not true. When you drive the axe into the tree when you need firewood, you are not cutting down a person; you are cutting down a tree. But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize God made it and it deserves respect because He made is as a tree.

Cat, Cutting, Deserve, Romanticized, Tree, Wrong

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

God, Heart, Lack, Men, Rebellion, Thankful

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 on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.

Art, Christian, Fairly, Life, School

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 and law.

Christian, Forefathers, Law, Men, Morality, Theology

Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.

Everybody, God, Pain, Road, Shadow

If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.

Battle, Christian, Christians, Mean, Winning, Worldly

The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually corporately, tending to do the Lord’s work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

Jesus, Real, People, Lord, Tending

Today the separation of church and state in America is used to silence the church. When Christians speak out on issues, the hue and cry from the humanist state and media is that Christians, an all religions, are prohibited from speaking since there is a separation of church and state.

America, Christian, Religious, Separation, Speak, Speaking

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