Francis Schaeffer Quotes

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

With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each of us is not what God made us to be. Beyond each of us as individuals, human relationships are not what God meant them to be. And beyond that, nature is […]

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live – this lost world […]

The significant thing is that rationalistic, humanistic man began by saying that Christianity was not rational enough. Now he has come around in a wide circle and ended as a mystic – though a mystic of a special kind. He is a mystic with nobody there. The old mystics always said that there was somebody […]

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

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.

The Christian is the real radical of our generation, for he stands against the monolithic, modern concept of truth as relative. But too often, instead of being the radical, standing against the shifting sands of relativism, he subsides into merely maintaing the status quo. If it is true that evil is evil, that God hates […]

Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Catholic Church any longer put it on the Index, as it once did. But men destroy it in the form of exegesis: they destroy it in the way they deal with it. They destroy it by not reading it as written in normal, […]