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The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong. — Francis Schaeffer

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

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched. — Francis Schaeffer

As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion. — Nancy Pearcey

We are to have a forgiving spirit even before the other person expresses regret for his wrong. — Francis A. Schaeffer

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

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

Unconditional love is a love that says to a child, "I love who you are no matter what, even though I may not — Brenda Schaeffer

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

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them. — Frank Schaeffer

What is is right. Thus — Francis A. Schaeffer

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. — Francis A. Schaeffer

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it — Edith Schaeffer

Evangelicals are experts at adopting heroes, since their community produces so few with both moral standing and intellectual firepower. — Frank Schaeffer

The Lord is the General, and he has the right ... the sovereign right ... to put us where he wants in the battle. — Francis Schaeffer

Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him. — Karlheinz Stockhausen

Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers. — Francis Schaeffer

The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important. — Francis Schaeffer

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract. — Francis A. Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life. — Edith Schaeffer

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator. — Edith Schaeffer

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music? — Pierre Schaeffer

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change. — Pierre 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. — Francis Schaeffer

Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless. — Francis Schaeffer

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different ... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible. — Pierre Schaeffer

The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message. — Francis Schaeffer

Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years. — Francis Schaeffer

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals. — 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

Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit. — Francis Schaeffer

There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion. — Francis A. Schaeffer

And with truth comes beauty and with this beauty a freedom before God. — Francis A. Schaeffer

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

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

A quiet disposition and a heart giving thanks at any given moment is the real test of the extent to which we love God at that moment. — Francis A. Schaeffer

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

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward. — Pierre Schaeffer

How can art be sufficiently meaningful? If it is offered up merely before men, then it does not have a sufficient integration point. — Francis A. Schaeffer

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute. — Francis Schaeffer

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God. — 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

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things. — Francis Schaeffer

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

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

I realize that life is not a step to a better place: life IS the better place, right here and now. It's too good to be true - and it's real. — Frank Schaeffer

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone! — Edith 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

As long as your heart's still beating, you're not done. You still have a purpose. God still has big plans for you. — Anna Schaeffer

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true. — Pierre Schaeffer

You will always be more than one person. You will always embody contradiction. — Frank Schaeffer

All our loves are first loves. — Susan Fromberg 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. — Francis Schaeffer

Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king — Francis A. Schaeffer

When I accept Christ as my Savior ... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity. — Francis Schaeffer

To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it. — Francis A. Schaeffer

It makes sense that there is no sense without God. — Edith Schaeffer

Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery. — Francis Schaeffer

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic. — Pierre Schaeffer

There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther. — Francis Schaeffer

We were free to create, as long as we never forgot that we are slaves to Jesus. — Francis A. Schaeffer

All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image. — Francis Schaeffer

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives. — Francis Schaeffer

If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them. — Francis Schaeffer

He who loses the arts loses the culture. — Francis Schaeffer

Actually we do everything we can, whether it is in a philosophic sense or a practical sense, to put ourselves at the center of the universe. — Francis A. Schaeffer

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher. — Francis Schaeffer

in the absence of a biblical morality a new elite will always come forward to dictate arbitrary absolutes to society — Francis A. Schaeffer

To demand the art forms of yesterday in either word systems or art is a bourgeois failure. — Francis A. Schaeffer

This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian. — Francis Schaeffer

If you demand perfection or nothing, you will always end up with nothing. — Francis A. Schaeffer

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. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque? — Pierre Schaeffer

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art. — Francis A. Schaeffer

We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful. — Francis Schaeffer

Belief does not change what is. — Francis Schaeffer

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended. — Francis Schaeffer

That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it. — Francis Schaeffer

We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage. — Francis A. Schaeffer

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it. — Pierre Schaeffer

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah. — Frank Schaeffer

Writing for enjoyment of expression does not need an audience of more than one. — Edith Schaeffer

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. — Francis A. Schaeffer

The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars. — Francis A. Schaeffer

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing. — Edith Schaeffer

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air — Francis Schaeffer

religion is a neurological disorder for which faith is the only cure. — Frank Schaeffer

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

Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money. — Frank Schaeffer

As Francis Schaeffer reminded us, "The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars" (5). — Leland Ryken

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. — Pierre Schaeffer

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on. — Francis Schaeffer

The human hand has an amazing quality that nothing else has: tremendous efficiency of strength and yet total gentleness. — Francis A. Schaeffer

The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous. — Pierre Schaeffer

Sound is the vocabulary of nature. — Pierre Schaeffer

promises: "And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and — Francis A. Schaeffer

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life. — Edith Schaeffer

The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world. — Francis Schaeffer

Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains!" Rousseau saw the primitive as innocent and autonomous freedom as the final good. We — Francis A. Schaeffer