All Francis Schaeffer Quotes
- The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong. Bible
- The purpose of apologetics is not just to win an argument or a discussion, but that people with whom we are in contact may become… Apologetic
- We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview... I think the thing… Christian
- Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that… Affects
- The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect.… Autonomously
- We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their… Beings
- What we, the Christian community, have to do is to refuse men the right to ravish our land, just as we refuse them the right… Accepting
- Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. Bible
- In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. Absolute
- Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that… Church
- I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution. Atheist
- The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result. Act
- Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched. Christianity
- I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers… Conclusion
- Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life. Answer
- To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the… Cost
- The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of… Bible
- The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars. Beyond
- We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in… Center
- The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government,… Basic