Francis Schaeffer Quotes

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.

Reality Is Not Meant To Be Only Creedal, Though The Creeds Are Important. Reality Is To Be Experienced, And Experienced On The Basis Of A Restored Relationship With God Through That Finished Work Of The Lord Jesus Christ On The Cross.

Most People Do Not Realize That There Was A Paid Chaplain In Congress Even Before The Revolutionary War Ended.

Killing Of Animals For Food Is One Thing, But On The Other Hand They Do Not Exist Simply As Things To Be Slaughtered. This Is True Of Fishing, Too. Many Men Fish And Leave Their Victims To Rot And Stink. But What About The Fish? Has He No Rights - Not To Be Romanticized As Though He Were A Man - But Real Rights?

If Men Act Upon The Teaching Of The Word Of God, And As Proportionately Men Live According To The Teaching And Commands Of The Bible, So They Have In Practice A Sufficient Psychological Base. I Will Find You A Man Dealing With Psychological Problems On The Basis Of The Teaching Of The Word Of God, Even If He Never Heard The Word Psychology, Or Does Not Know What It Means.

Christian Art Today Should Be Twentieth-century Art.

They Are Equal Reality. They Are Two Streams Of Present Reality, Both Equally Promised. The Christian Dead Are Already With Christ Now, And Christ Really Lives In The Christian. Christ Lives In Me. The Christ Who Was Crucified, The Christ Whose Work Is Finished, The Christ Who Is Glorified Now, Has Promised (john 15) To Bring Forth Fruit In The Christian, Just As The Sap Of The Vine Brings Forth The Fruit In The Branch.

There Needs To Be An Order Of Office, But In Every Single Office That Is Presented In The Scriptures There Is The Personal Emphasis Within That Legal Concept. In The Church The Elder Is An Office-bearer. But Both The Preaching Elders And The Ruling Elders Are "ministers," And The Word "minister" Is A Personal Relationship, It Does Not Speak Of Dominance. There Is To Be Order In The Church, But The Preaching Elder Or The Ruling Elder Is To Be A Minister, With A Loving Personal Relationship With Those Who Are Before Him, Even When They Are Wrong And Need Admonition.

...when I Accept Christ As My Savior... I Am Immediately In A New And Living Relationship With Each Of The Three Persons Of The Trinity.

So Our Building Of The Visible Church Becomes Much Like Any Natural Business Function, Using Natural Means And Natural Motives.

The Command Is To Love Him, Not Just To Think About Him, Or Do Things For Him. We Are Not To Stop With A Proper Legal Relationship - For Example, To Think Of A Man As Legally Lost, Which He Is, In The Sight Of A Holy God - Without Thinking Of Him As A Person. Saying This, We Can Suddenly See That Much Evangelism Is Not Only Sub-christian, But Subhuman - Legalistic And Impersonal.

We Have The Right To Rid Our Houses Of Ants; But What We Have No Right To Do Is To Forget To Honor The Ant As God Made It, Out In The Place Where God Made The Ant To Be. When We Meet The Ant On The Sidewalk, We Step Over Him. He Is A Creature, Like Ourselves; Not Made In The Image Of God, It Is True, But Equal With Man As Far As Creation Is Concerned. The Ant And The Man Are Both Creatures.