Quotes from Francis Schaeffer
Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.
- Francis Schaeffer
Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.
- Francis Schaeffer
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.
- Francis Schaeffer
The Lord is the General, and he has the right... the sovereign right... to put us where he wants in the battle.
- Francis Schaeffer
Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.
- Francis Schaeffer
Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.
- Francis Schaeffer
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
- Francis Schaeffer
The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.
- Francis Schaeffer
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.
- Francis Schaeffer
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 and law.
- Francis Schaeffer
All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.
- Francis Schaeffer
In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.
- Francis Schaeffer