Francis A. Schaeffer quote: "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."

Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349 The Christian is the rea...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 [Leaders of the anarchist movement i...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

The defense, for myself and for those for whom I am responsible, must be a conscious defense. We can...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

Far too often, young people become Christians and then search among the Church's ranks for real peop...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 Christians in their relationships should be the most h...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711 Now the world should be able to se...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

This is the real Church of the Lord Jesus Christ -- not merely organisation, but a group of people, ...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 In saying God is there, we are saying Go...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

...the hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in fighting the plastic cultur...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christia...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

‎People have presuppositions... By 'presuppositions' we mean the basic way that an individual look...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an ...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But th...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

In passing we should note this curious mark of our age: The only absolute allowed is the absolute in...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

The ironic fact is that humanism which began with man's being central eventually had no real meaning...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can mak...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venere...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consum...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we diff...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

The Cross of Christ is to be a reality to me not only once for all at my conversion, but all through...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady ro...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

Christians . . . ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. Great painting is not "photo...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the out...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407 You must not lose confidence in ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 It was my generation, and the ge...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Cathol...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary The higher the mountains, the...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

We cannot expect people to take seriously our belief in objective truth if, in our practice, we indi...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we shou...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolu...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting p...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we shou...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolu...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the out...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting p...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
EDITH SCHAEFFER

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going t...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

All these obstacles, (investors) are seeing right through them. Where is the liftoff going to come f...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

The most popular price level that everybody thinks of is 10,000 because it's such a round number and...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

The so-called risky assets are continuing to outperform.
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

All these obstacles, (investors) are seeing right through them, ... Where is the liftoff going to co...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

I feel the odds strongly favor a broad washout before this bear market is over, if only because the ...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear pow...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, whic...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

Some of us (perfectionists, especially) fuss so much over making the 'right' choice, but in life, al...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

This is a tough vote and he buckled, ... I know he's made some tough votes before. It's hard to take...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

There's a disconnect between what people are doing and the reason for buying stock in the first plac...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

Because the market hasn't been doing anything, lots of people are selling options, selling calls for...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

I think there's a chance for a year-end rally. I think there's a chance, if we don't get that, for a...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

My feeling is that an upside break will be a head fake and a downside break will lead to a major dec...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

Institutions are the thundering herd. That's where the real vulnerability comes in. Money is already...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

But I think it's going to be kind of one of these Chinese food kind of deals: a little while later, ...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

[There's little reason to be excited about the sector.] Outside of tech is better than tech, ... But...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there ...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

There are already signs of a substantial reduction in these flows so far.
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

It raises further questions about whether we yet know the full scope of the problem. It's not a larg...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is y...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to f...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or ...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, v...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your makin...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle i...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

Congress has failed to act to shore up wetlands protections after the Supreme Court decision. And as...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

With today's technology, a new refinery could be really clean - far cleaner than today's refineries ...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

At the core of my show is a human and compassionate spirit.
ERIC SCHAEFFER

Ultimately, the bill may rest on a shaky premise, as Clean Air Act permitting provisions seem to hav...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

[The Washington-based Environmental Integrity project reported this week that in the past few months...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

The environment really doesn't care about hourly releases. What matters is the total increase, how m...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

Under this proposal, it would never happen,
ERIC SCHAEFFER

Hopefully, what comes through is that it's certainly about much more than eating disorders. It's abo...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

This [gift] puts Signature on the map with major theaters in New York, like the Public Theater and L...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

Starved ... laughter is the best medicine. I know from my recovery in all areas of addiction that hu...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

Standardized testing has become the arbiter of social mobility, yet there is more regulation of the ...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

What is likely is that you will see a decline in scores whenever a new test is administered. It's du...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

The main reason I came here is because I wanted to witness the way this area has been cultivated wit...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

Even when people emigrate to another country; they are still a piece of our history. Its interesting...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

The testing explosion often creates overlaps between tests mandated at the district level, the state...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

I wonder if it's going to be a test too far. They're changing the length, the range and the format a...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

The president's idea was dead on arrival. Now it is well beyond rigor mortis.
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

More than half the states now require passage of a test before awarding a high school diploma. Propo...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world ...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

He had it all. Now he's a quadriplegic.
DOUG SCHAEFFER

For Kevin, the most frightening thing for him is he goes in, can't move, and he's underwater. Nobody...
DOUG SCHAEFFER

It's the damnedest Rube Goldberg device you've ever seen.
DOUG SCHAEFFER

Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and co...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

It makes sense that there is no sense without God
EDITH SCHAEFFER

The thing about real life is that important events dont announce themselves. Trumpets dont blow,...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emi...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

Hopefully, what comes through is that it's certainly about much more than eating disorders. It's abo...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

This relocation is very much in line with our plans for deliberate growth and expansion, and makes p...
JAMES SCHAEFFER

We are certainly concerned about this one. There are enormous legal pitfalls.
JUDITH SCHAEFFER

We are just beginning to unleash the true potential of what digital photography can provide for cons...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

We always look for a good piece. That sounds very simple, but it's not. We look for good writing, go...
NANCY SCHAEFFER

If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
FRANCIS

“Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
FRANCIS

Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
FRANCIS

Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
FRANCIS

Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
FRANCIS

Friends let friends wear purple.
FRANCIS

It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
FRANCIS

Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
FRANCIS

No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations ...
SUSAN SCHAEFFER MACAULAY

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. MILNE

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. MILNE

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him w...
A. A. MILNE

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong place...
A. A. MILNE

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MILNE

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for hims...
A. A. MILNE

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. MILNE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do...
A. A. MILNE

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
A. A. MILNE

The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contem...
A. A. BLASOV

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems...
A A MILNE

Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
A. A. MILNE

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A. A. MILNE

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. MILNE

Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.
A. A. MILNE

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bi...
A. A. MILNE

Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. ATTANASIO

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is ...
A. A. MILNE

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
A. A. MILNE

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
A. A. MILNE

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you see...
A. A. MILNE

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A. A. MILNE

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. MILNE

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to...
A. A. MILNE

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing ...
A. A. MILNE

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - ...
A. A. MILNE

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to ...
A. A. MILNE

Oh, help!” said Pooh. “I’d better go back.”
“Oh, bother!” said Pooh. “I shall hav...
MILNE, A. A.

How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ...
MILNE, A. A.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
A. A. MILNE

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. MILNE

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. MILNE

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE

"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. MILNE

I have decided to catch a Heffalump.
A. A. MILNE

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be foun...
A. A. HODGE

The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his w...
MILNE, A. A.

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name and they say golf is a quiet game
A. A. MILNE

An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get w...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.
A. A. HODGE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

You must never go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.
A. A. HODGE

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequat...
A. A. HODGE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. ...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - / Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
A. A. MILNE

'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. Af...
A. A. MILNE

An Expedition to the North Pole.
A. A. HODGE

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there
A. A. MILNE

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. MILNE

We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't...
A. A. MILNE

Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! [Christopher Robin is saying his prayers]
A. A. MILNE

Christopher Robin had a question to ask first, and he was wondering how to ask it."Well," he said at...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a conditi...
A. A. HODGE

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
A. A. HODGE

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A. A. MILNE

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE

No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. MILNE

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape ...
A. A. MILNE

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
POPE FRANCIS

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I

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.

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Francis A. Schaeffer

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 A. Schaeffer

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