Roald Hoffmann
Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor
Francis Schaeffer
American theologian and writer (1912-1984)
Francis August Schaefferwas an American evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor. He co-founded the L’Abri community in Switzerland with his wife Edith Schaeffer, nee Seville, a prolific author in her own right.
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Francis August Schaefferwas an American evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor. He co-founded the L’Abri community in Switzerland with his wife Edith Schaeffer, nee Seville, a prolific author in her own right. Opposed to theological modernism (which prefers, e.g., rational thought and religious experience over doctrinal pronouncements by leaders or following religious traditions), Schaeffer promoted what he claimed was a more historic Protestant faith and a presuppositional approach to Christian apologetics, which he believed would answer the questions of the age.
9 Quotes by Francis Schaeffer
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I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
Francis SchaefferAmerican theologian and writer (1912-1984)
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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 SchaefferAmerican theologian and writer (1912-1984)
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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 SchaefferAmerican theologian and writer (1912-1984)
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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
Francis SchaefferAmerican theologian and writer (1912-1984)
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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
Francis SchaefferAmerican theologian and writer (1912-1984)
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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 SchaefferAmerican theologian and writer (1912-1984)
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Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
Francis SchaefferAmerican theologian and writer (1912-1984)
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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 SchaefferAmerican theologian and writer (1912-1984)
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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.
Francis SchaefferAmerican theologian and writer (1912-1984)