Quotes by Francis Schaeffer

About Francis Schaeffer:

Francis August Schaeffer is most famous for his writings and his establishment of the L'Abri community in Switzerland. Opposed to theological modernism, Schaeffer promoted a more historic Protestant faith and a presuppositional approach to Christian apologetics, which he believed would answer the questions of the age.
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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

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

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.

Francis Schaeffer

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

Francis Schaeffer

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

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

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

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.

Francis Schaeffer

What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism. Christians ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. The Christian is the really free man. He is free to have imagina...

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.

Francis Schaeffer

Author Bio

  • NameFrancis Schaeffer
  • DescriptionAmerican theologian
  • BornJanuary 30, 1912
  • DiedMay 15, 1984
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTheologian; Author