Quotes from Francis Schaeffer
Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.
- Francis Schaeffer
If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.
- Francis Schaeffer
There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.
- Francis Schaeffer
A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.
- Francis Schaeffer
The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.
- Francis Schaeffer
Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.
- Francis Schaeffer
Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.
- Francis Schaeffer
And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator.
- Francis Schaeffer
That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.
- Francis Schaeffer
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.
- Francis Schaeffer
When I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.
- 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.
- Francis Schaeffer