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The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.
— Francis Schaeffer
Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.
— Francis Schaeffer
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
— Francis Schaeffer
We are to have a forgiving spirit even before the other person expresses regret for his wrong.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.
— Francis Schaeffer
A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.
— Francis Schaeffer
What is is right. Thus
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.
— Francis Schaeffer
Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.
— Francis Schaeffer
If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.
— 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
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
Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.
— 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
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.
— Francis Schaeffer
Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.
— Francis A. 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
Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.
— Francis Schaeffer
And with truth comes beauty and with this beauty a freedom before God.
— Francis A. 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
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
— Francis Schaeffer
The principle of saying no to self lies at the heart of my attitude toward the world as it maintains its alien stand in rebellion against the Creator.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Regardless of a man's system, he has to live in God's world.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
The Christian should be the man with the flaming imagination and the beauty of creation.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
— Francis Schaeffer
The church is something beautiful
— Francis Schaeffer
The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.
— Francis Schaeffer
There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
— Francis Schaeffer
If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.
— Francis Schaeffer
True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.
— Francis Schaeffer
A quiet disposition and a heart giving thanks at any given moment is the real test of the extent to which we love God at that moment.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
How can art be sufficiently meaningful? If it is offered up merely before men, then it does not have a sufficient integration point.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.
— Francis Schaeffer
Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
— Francis Schaeffer
Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.
— Francis Schaeffer
Actually we do everything we can, whether it is in a philosophic sense or a practical sense, to put ourselves at the center of the universe.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king
— Francis A. 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
To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.
— Francis Schaeffer
There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.
— Francis Schaeffer
We were free to create, as long as we never forgot that we are slaves to Jesus.
— Francis A. 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
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.
— Francis Schaeffer
He who loses the arts loses the culture.
— Francis Schaeffer
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 did.
— Francis Schaeffer
In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.
— Francis Schaeffer
in the absence of a biblical morality a new elite will always come forward to dictate arbitrary absolutes to society
— Francis A. Schaeffer
To demand the art forms of yesterday in either word systems or art is a bourgeois failure.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian.
— Francis Schaeffer
If you demand perfection or nothing, you will always end up with nothing.
— Francis A. 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 A. Schaeffer
Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.
— Francis Schaeffer
Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air
— Francis Schaeffer
That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.
— Francis Schaeffer
If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.
— Francis Schaeffer
One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.
— 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
We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.
— Francis Schaeffer
Belief does not change what is.
— Francis Schaeffer
As Francis Schaeffer reminded us, "The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars" (5).
— Leland Ryken
People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.
— Francis Schaeffer
The human hand has an amazing quality that nothing else has: tremendous efficiency of strength and yet total gentleness.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
promises: "And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and
— Francis A. Schaeffer
The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.
— Francis Schaeffer