All Francis Schaeffer Quotes
- If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has… Communicated
- This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian. Age
- If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats… Creation
- Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended. Chaplain
- Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God. Art
- As evangelical Christians, we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more important.… Area
- Killing of animals for food is one thing, but on the other hand they do not exist simply as things to be slaughtered. This is… Animal
- Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality… Bases
- Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have… Affair
- If you want a significant man, with absolutes, morality, and meaning, then you must have what the Bible insists upon - that God will judge… Able
- If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean… Absolute
- Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless. Confrontation
- Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there… Absolutely
- If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true.… All
- 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… Both
- The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart. Beginning
- Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years. Church
- Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the… Accommodation
- If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose… Beauty
- There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion. Compassion
- In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with… All
- The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important. Body
- Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage. Believe
- The church is something beautiful Beautiful
- No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had… Absolute