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“There is death in the city when the understanding of the human being about himself is no longer related to an actually existing God. For then human beings inhabit an impersonal world of their own shifting values and their own power plays. Without a knowable God in heaven, man is left without real meaning and morals on earth. He will think and act just like pagans, whose integration is with land, earth, and nature (Latin: pagus).”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, Death in the City

“The Christian’s life is to be a thing of truth and also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, Art and the Bible

“There is no real preaching of the Christian gospel except in light of the fact that man is under the wrath of God—the moral wrath of God. So Paul has a reply to the man who shrugs his shoulders and says, “Why do I need salvation?” His response is this: “You need salvation because you are under the wrath of God. You have broken God’s law.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, Death in the City

“The wise learn to manage life, not by frantically trying to glue together the knocked-over vase, but by gathering all of the shattered jagged pieces and powdered dust from the floor and bringing them then to God. - Recovering Eden, The gospel according to Ecclesiastes, p84-85”
― Eswine, Zack