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  • I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.

    Francis August Schaeffer (1976). “How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture”, Good News Pub
  • We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not go to the opposite extreme of seeing them romantically. To do either is to fail to understand who men really are--creatures made in the image of God but fallen.

    Eye   Men   Views  
    Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality”
  • God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to man in language about both spiritual reality and physical reality, about the nature of God and the nature of man.

    Spiritual   Reality   Men  
  • Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.

    Francis August Schaeffer (1971). “The church before the watching world: a practical ecclesiology”, IVP Books
  • The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.

    Battle   Want   Sovereign  
  • Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

  • In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in our society. We have been relegated to a cultural backwater, where we are meant to paddle around content in the knowledge that we are merely allowed to exist.

  • Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

    Children   People   Way  
    Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”
  • Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.

    Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”
  • And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator.

    God   Choices   Purpose  
    Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.79, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

    Judging   Absolutes   Ifs  
  • Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important doctrinal teachings of the Word of God when inerrancy is gone.

  • Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no personal-infinite God who has spoken, has no adequate universal to supply an adequate second boundary condition; and man being fallen is not only finite, but sinful. Thus man's pragmatically made choices have no reference point beyond human egotism. It is dog eat dog, man eat man, man eat nature.

    Dog   Men   Choices  
  • 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 (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.12, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • Sadly enough, there is a kind of an anti-intellectualism among many Christians: spirituality is falsely pitted against intellectual comprehension as though they stood in a dichotomy. Such anti-intellectualism cuts away at the very heart of the Christian message. Of course, there is a false intellectualism which does destroy the work of the Holy Spirit. But it does not arise when men wrestle honestly with honest questions and then see that the Bible has the answers. This does not oppose true spirituality.

  • I hesitate to add, but I will, that this is fun. God means Christianity to be fun. There is to be a reality of love and communication in the Christian-to-Christian relationship, individually and corporately, which is completely and truly personal.

    God   Christian   Fun  
    Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.144, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • ...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.

    God   Reality   Calling  
    Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.135, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • In two areas above all others the Christian demonstration of love and communication stands clear: in the area of the Christian couple and their children; and in the personal relationships of Christians in the church. If there is no demonstration in these two places, on the personal level, the world can conclude that orthodox Christian doctrine is nothing but dead, cold words.

    Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.141, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.

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

  • If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

  • 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.

    Philosophy   Men   Views  
    Francis Schaeffer (2013). “He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.4, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.

    Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”
  • But the fact that Christ as the bridegroom brings forth fruit through me as the bride, through the agency of the indwelling Holy Spirit by faith, opens the way for me as a Christian to begin to know in the present life the reality of the supernatural. This is where the Christian is to live. Doctrine is important, but it is not an end in itself. There is to be an experiential reality, moment by moment.

    God   Christian   Reality  
    Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • 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.

  • It is not enough for the Church to be engaged with the State in healing social ills, though this is important at times. But when the world can turn around and see a group of God's people exhibiting substantial healing in the area of human relationships in their present life, then the world will take notice. Each group of Christians is, as it were, a pilot plant, showing that something can be done in the present situation, if only we begin in the right way.

  • 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 A. Schaeffer (2013). “The Mark of the Christian”, p.15, InterVarsity Press
  • Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

    Mean   Men   Purpose  
    Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”
  • The church is something beautiful

    Francis August Schaeffer (1971). “The church before the watching world: a practical ecclesiology”, IVP Books
  • Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him. Eve doubted, and mankind in revolt doubts God. To believe him, not just when I accept Christ as Savior, but every moment, one moment at a time: this is the Christian life, and this is true spirituality.

    Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.132, NavPress
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