Francis Schaeffer quotes

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)
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution. View quote
Francis Schaeffer
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Francis Schaeffer
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. View quote
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. View quote
Francis Schaeffer
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched. View quote
Francis Schaeffer
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves. View quote
Francis Schaeffer
People have presuppositions, and they will live more consistently on the basis of these presuppositions than even they themselves may realize. By presuppositions we mean the basic way an individual looks at life, his basic world view, the grid through which he sees the world. Presuppositions rest upon that which a person considers to be the truth of what exists. People's presuppositions lay a grid for all they bring forth into the external world. Their presuppositions also provide the basis for their values and therefore the basis for their decisions. View quote
Francis Schaeffer
Now, not all the founding fathers were individually, personally, Christians. That certainly is true. But, nevertheless, they founded the country on the base that there is a God who is the Creator (now I come to the next central phrase) who gave the inalienable rights. (Francis Schaeffer)
The direction in which science will move is set by the philosophic world view of the scientists. View quote
Francis Schaeffer
The reason that these freedoms were there is because they believed there was somebody who gave the inalienable rights. But if we have the view that the final reality is material or energy which has existed forever in some form, we must understand that this view never, never, never would have given the rights which we now know and which, unhappily, I say to you (those of you who are Christians) that too often you take all too much for granted. View quote
Francis Schaeffer
History indicates that at a certain point of economic breakdown people cease being concerned with individual liberties and are ready to accept regimentation. The danger is obviously even greater when the two main values so many people have are personal peace and affluence. View quote
Francis Schaeffer
His death there on Calvary's cross is for us individually, but it's not egotistically individualistic. Our individual salvation will one day be a portion of the restoration of all things. It is our calling until He comes back again that happy day, to do all we can - while it won't be perfect as when He comes back - to see substantial healing in every area that He will then perfectly heal, and that Wesley did understand. View quote
Francis Schaeffer