Quotes from Francis Schaeffer
If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.
- Francis Schaeffer
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
- Francis Schaeffer
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.
- Francis Schaeffer
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.
- Francis Schaeffer
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
- Francis Schaeffer
The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.
- Francis Schaeffer
Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
- Francis Schaeffer
You are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
- Francis Schaeffer
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
- Francis Schaeffer
The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.
- Francis Schaeffer
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.
- Francis Schaeffer
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.
- Francis Schaeffer