Francis Schaeffer Quotes

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

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

The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.

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

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.

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

Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.

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.

Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.

There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

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.

In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

Truth carries with it confrontation.

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.

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

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

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

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.

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

There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.

The overall way of thinking in the United States has shifted away from basic Biblical values, and the media share in the responsibility for this change.

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

The church is something beautiful

...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.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was and is the lack of a thankful heart.