{"author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer","total_quotes":46,"quotes":[{"text":"Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man's total history (including remarks put on his record by his kindergarten teacher about his ability and character). And with the computer must be placed the modern scientific technical capability which exists for wholesale monitoring of telephone, cable, Telex and microwave transmissions which carry much of today's spoken and written communications. The combined use of the technical capability of listening in on all these forms of communications with the high-speed computer literally leaves no place to hide and little room for privacy.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["communications","computer","government","privacy"],"id":948,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"},{"text":"If you demand perfection or nothing, you will always end up with nothing.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["perfection"],"id":21004,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"},{"text":"Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with understanding realize that their presuppositions should be *chosen* after a careful consideration of which worldview is true.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["bible","catch","francis-schaeffer","measels","presuppositions","schaeffer"],"id":24186,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"},{"text":"...The hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in fighting the plastic culture, and the church should have been fighting it too... More than this, they were right in the fact that the plastic culture - modern man, the mechanistic worldview in university textbooks and in practice, the total threat of the machine, the establishment technology, the bourgeois upper middle class - is poor in its sensitivity to nature... As a utopian group, the counterculture understands something very real, both as to the culture as a culture, but also as to the poverty of modern man's concept of nature and the way the machine is eating up nature on every side.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["creation","environment","the-earth"],"id":35737,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"},{"text":"Evangelical Christians need to notice..., that the Reformation said 'Scripture Alone' and not 'the Revelation of God in Christ Alone'. If you do not have the view of the Scriptures that the Reformers had, you really have no content in the word 'Christ' - and this is the modern drift in theology. Modern theology uses the word without content because 'Christ' is cut away from the Scriptures. The Reformation followed the teaching of Christ Himself in linking the revelation Christ gave of God to the revelation of the written Scriptures.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["bible","christ","christians","evangelical","modern","reformation","scripture","theology"],"id":36066,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"},{"text":"The ironic fact is that humanism which began with man's being central eventually had no real meaning for people. On the other hand, if one begins with the Bible's position that man is created by God and in the image of God, there is a basis for that person's dignity.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["holiness-of-god","humanism","image-of-god"],"id":38791,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"},{"text":"To the extent that anyone gives up the mentality of antithesis, he has moved over to the other side, even if he still tries to defend orthodoxy or evangelicalism. If Christians are to take advantage of the death of romanticism, we must consciously build back the mentality and practice of antithesis among Christians in doctrine and life. We must do it in our teaching and example toward compromise, both ecclesiastically and in evangelism. To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at these points where there is a cost in doing so, is to push the next generation into the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["christianity","philosophy"],"id":62613,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"},{"text":"For many, what they see on television becomes more true than what they see with their eyes in the external world. But this is not so, for one must never forget that every television and has been edited. The viewer does not see the event. He sees in edited form of the event. It is not the event which is seen, but an edited symbol or an edited image of the event. An aura and illusion of objectivity and truth is built up, which could not be totally the case, even if the people shooting the film were completely neutral.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["bias","media","perception"],"id":66528,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"},{"text":"Men in western governments who were themselves are often modern men, did not understand that freedom without chaos is not a magic formula which can be implanted anywhere. Rather, being modern men, it was their view that, because human race had evolved to a certain level by some such year as 1950, democracy could be planted anywhere from the outside. They had carefully closed their eyes to the fact that freedom without chaos had come forth from a Christian base. They did not understand that freedom without chaos could not be separated from its roots. (…) Many countries where democracy has been imposed from the outside or from top downward, authoritarianism has increasingly become the rule of the day.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["itarianism","chaos","democracy","freedom"],"id":100212,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"},{"text":"I have observed one thing among true Christians in their differences in many countries: What divides and severs true Christian groups and Christians - what leaves a bitterness that can last for 20, 30, 40 years (or for 50 or 60 years in a son's or daughter's memory) - is not the issue of doctrine or belief that caused the differences in the first place. Invariably, it is a lack of love - and the bitter things that are said by true Christians in the midst of differences.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["christian-life","doctrine","love"],"id":101344,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}