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

We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to…

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— 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

If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him…

— 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

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

— 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

Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why…

— Francis Schaeffer

Christians, of all people, should not be destroyers. We should treat nature with an overwhelming respect. We may cut down a tree…

— 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

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

— 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

If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good…

— 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

Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the…

— Francis Schaeffer

Man is indeed lost, but that does not mean that he is nothing. We must resist humanism, but to make a man…

— Francis Schaeffer

Killing of animals for food is one thing, but on the other hand they do not exist simply as things to be…

— Francis Schaeffer

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

— 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

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

— 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

Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.

— 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