Quotes from Francis Schaeffer
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 Schaeffer
Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.
— Francis Schaeffer
A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.
— Francis Schaeffer
Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.
— Francis Schaeffer
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.
— Francis Schaeffer
There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.
— Francis Schaeffer
To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.
— Francis Schaeffer
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.
— Francis Schaeffer
In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.
— Francis Schaeffer
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.
— Francis Schaeffer
Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.
— Francis Schaeffer
You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.
— Francis Schaeffer