Quotes from Francis Schaeffer

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 to us.

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

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

The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

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

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

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.

If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.

Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

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.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

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

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

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 setting.