Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.

— Francis Schaeffer

If we don't show our love to one another the world has a right to questions whether Christianity is true...

— Francis Schaeffer

“If you demand perfection or nothing, you will always end up with nothing.”

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.

— Francis Schaeffer

There are two main reasons why we may not be bringing forth the fruit we should. It may be because of ignorance,…

— Francis Schaeffer

Preaching the gospel without the Holy Spirit is to miss the entire point of the command of Jesus Christ for our era.…

— Francis Schaeffer

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty…

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there…

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons…

— Francis Schaeffer

Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the…

— Francis Schaeffer

They are equal reality. They are two streams of present reality, both equally promised. The Christian dead are already with Christ now,…

— Francis Schaeffer

Ignorance is in relationship to content; it is not just a spirit of ignorance. In verse 21 it speaks of "the truth…

— Francis Schaeffer

“Among religious writings the Bible is unique in its attitude to its great men. Even many Christian biographies puff up the men…

— Francis Schaeffer

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles. But people with more understanding…

— Francis Schaeffer

But the fact that Christ as the bridegroom brings forth fruit through me as the bride, through the agency of the indwelling…

— Francis Schaeffer

When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin…

— Francis Schaeffer

God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice,…

— Francis Schaeffer

... these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our environment: money and time-or to say it another way,…

— Francis Schaeffer

The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.

— Francis Schaeffer

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an…

— Francis Schaeffer

In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only…

— Francis Schaeffer

The modern concept of separation is an argument for a total separation of religion from the state. The consequence of the acceptance…

— Francis Schaeffer

The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast…

— Francis Schaeffer

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship…

— Francis Schaeffer

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can…

— Francis Schaeffer

In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck…

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious…

— Francis Schaeffer

Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is…

— Francis Schaeffer

Hudson Taylor said, "The Lord's work done in the Lord's way will never fail to have the Lord's provision." ...The Lord's work…

— Francis Schaeffer

Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power…

— Francis Schaeffer

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result,…

— Francis Schaeffer

And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God,…

— Francis Schaeffer

Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also…

— Francis Schaeffer