Francis Schaeffer Quotes - Page 5

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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 Schaeffer

  Relationship, Important, Goes On

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• We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their origin-who they are. God tells man who he is. God tells us that He created man in His image. So man is something wonderful.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, People, Humanity

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.30, InterVarsity Press

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• God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to man in language about both spiritual reality and physical reality, about the nature of God and the nature of man.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Spiritual, Reality, Men

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• When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Blood, Spirit

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.92, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Our trusting the Lord does not mean that there are not times of tears. I think it is a mistake as Christians to act as though trusting the Lord and tears are not compatible.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Mistake, Mean

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• What we, the Christian community, have to do is to refuse men the right to ravish our land, just as we refuse them the right to ravish our women; to insist that somebody accepts a little less profit by not exploiting nature.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Men, Land

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”

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• The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces instead of totals.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Country, Government

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• Modern man has no real "value" for the ocean. All he has is the most crass form of egoist, pragmatic value for it. He treats it as a "thing" in the worst possible sense, to exploit it for the "good" of man. The man who believes things are there only by chance cannot give things a real value. But for the Christian the value of a thing is not in itself autonomously, but because God made it.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Real, Believe

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• I hesitate to add, but I will, that this is fun. God means Christianity to be fun. There is to be a reality of love and communication in the Christian-to-Christian relationship, individually and corporately, which is completely and truly personal.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Fun

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.144, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Answers, Moral, Turns

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.278, NavPress

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• Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that all sin can be explained merely on the basis of conditioning.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Decision, Sin

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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• Are you still thirsting? Christ gives the invitation not only to others but to you. He is the fountainhead. He has died and is risen. He offers the only way to eternal life, asking only that you admit your need, raise the empty hands of faith, and accept His gift. What is eternal life? It is meaning in life now as well as living one‚s life forever. Drink deep. Jesus offers a brimming cup.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Jesus, Hands, Giving

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• Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Children, People, Way

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”

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• Truth carries with it confrontation.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Confrontation, Carrie

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Reality, Calling

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.135, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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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 Schaeffer

  Our Generation, Generations, Sin

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

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Reality, Ideas

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.49, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Home, Responsibility

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• To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Generations, Cost, Next

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• Today the separation of church and state in America is used to silence the church. When Christians speak out on issues, the hue and cry from the humanist state and media is that Christians, an all religions, are prohibited from speaking since there is a separation of church and state.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Media

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”

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

  Francis Schaeffer

  Luther, Has Beens

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”

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• But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who has made men and women in His own image that they have a unique dignity of life as human beings. Human life then is filled with dignity, and the state and humanistically oriented law have no right and no authority to take human life arbitrarily in the way it is being taken.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Taken, Unique, Men

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• Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Believe, Perfect, Sometimes

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• There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Real, Home, Long

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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• 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.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Use, Scripture, Seeming

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the Bible as truth”

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