Francis A. Schaeffer

Quotes

• “Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the discipli...”
• “Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if...”
• “The author called us to re-examine assumptions bequeathed to us from Greece and Rome. Just as a bridge built by the Roma...”
• “Countries which have a different base, for example, a Christian one (or at least one with the memory of a Christian foun...”
• “If we as Christians do not speak out as authoritarian governments grow from within or come from outside, eventually we o...”
• “The problem which confronts us as we approach modern man today is not how we are to change Christian teaching in order t...”
• “We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world vie...”
• “Without the infinite personal God, all a person can do, as Nietzsche points out, is to make systems. In today's speech w...”
• “I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though h...”
• “The Cross of Christ is to be a reality to me not only once for all at my conversion, but all through my life as a Christ...”
• “The ironic fact is that humanism which began with man's being central eventually had no real meaning for people. On the ...”
• “Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the meas...”
• “We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we rea...”
• “What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism. ...”
• “The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard t...”
• “As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are m...”
• “Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms...”
• “A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the prai...”
• “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 ou...”
• “In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that t...”
• “I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefat...”
• “If you demand perfection or nothing, you will always end up with nothing.”
• “The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.”
• “Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.”