Religion Quotes by 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 spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Francis Schaeffer

If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true…

— Francis Schaeffer

Today the separation of church and state in America is used to silence the church. When Christians speak out on issues, the…

— Francis Schaeffer

Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him.…

— 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

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

— Francis Schaeffer

The reality of living by faith as though we were already dead, of living by faith in open communion with God, and…

— Francis Schaeffer

There needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the…

— Francis Schaeffer

“Returning to the Moral Majority, we must realize that regardless of whether we think the Moral Majority has always said the right…

— Francis Schaeffer

The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious…

— 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

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and…

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— Francis Schaeffer

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it,…

— 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

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

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

— Francis Schaeffer

In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in…

— 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