Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage. Francis Schaeffer More Quotes by Francis Schaeffer More Quotes From Francis Schaeffer In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness. Francis Schaeffer holiness pride flesh If you want a significant man, with absolutes, morality, and meaning, then you must have what the Bible insists upon - that God will judge men justly, and they will not be able to raise their voices because of the base upon which He judges them. Francis Schaeffer voice judging men If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions. Francis Schaeffer judging men ideas A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself. Francis Schaeffer christian mind art 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 and significance, love, motions of morality and rationality, beauty and verbal communication-are ultimately unfulfillable and thus meaningless. Francis Schaeffer communication purpose men The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars. Francis Schaeffer stars imagination christian Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life. Francis Schaeffer whole christian answers If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute. Francis Schaeffer absolutes judging ifs If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God. Francis Schaeffer finals government made Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers. Francis Schaeffer taught christian jesus Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched. Francis Schaeffer intellectual mind men But the fact that Christ as the bridegroom brings forth fruit through me as the bride, through the agency of the indwelling Holy Spirit by faith, opens the way for me as a Christian to begin to know in the present life the reality of the supernatural. This is where the Christian is to live. Doctrine is important, but it is not an end in itself. There is to be an experiential reality, moment by moment. Francis Schaeffer christian god reality Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship. Francis Schaeffer divorce god giving I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution. Francis Schaeffer atheist running believe This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious liberty. Francis Schaeffer religious christian law Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital 'T.' Truth about total reality, not just about religious things. Francis Schaeffer biblical religious reality As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd. Francis Schaeffer shepherds sheep son 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 all sin can be explained merely on the basis of conditioning. Francis Schaeffer sin decision men 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. Francis Schaeffer teaching christian giving As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does not mean that we should automatically accept that worldview. Good art heightens the impact of that worldview, but it does not make it true. Francis Schaeffer christian mean art
