Francis Schaeffer

The church is something beautiful

— Francis Schaeffer

Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.

— Francis Schaeffer

We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.

— Francis Schaeffer

Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

— Francis Schaeffer

“The human hand has an amazing quality that nothing else has: tremendous efficiency of strength and yet total gentleness.”

— francis schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.

— Francis Schaeffer

The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important…

— Francis Schaeffer

Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a…

— Francis Schaeffer

If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral…

— Francis Schaeffer

We as Bible-believing evangelical Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman's discussion. It is a life and…

— Francis Schaeffer

The overall way of thinking in the United States has shifted away from basic Biblical values, and the media share in the…

— Francis Schaeffer

The purpose of apologetics is not just to win an argument or a discussion, but that people with whom we are in…

— Francis Schaeffer

If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same…

— Francis Schaeffer

There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are…

— Francis Schaeffer

As evangelical Christians, we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel…

— Francis Schaeffer

God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place…

— Francis Schaeffer

In two areas above all others the Christian demonstration of love and communication stands clear: in the area of the Christian couple…

— Francis Schaeffer

Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him…

— Francis Schaeffer

“What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism.…

— Francis Schaeffer

Here we are told that Christ really lives in me, if I have accepted Christ as my Savior. In other words, we…

— Francis Schaeffer

Today the separation of church and state is America is used to silence the church... The way the concept is used today…

— Francis Schaeffer

The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men…

— Francis Schaeffer

The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated…

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

“We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage.”

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.

— Francis Schaeffer

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

— Francis Schaeffer

If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer