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

Age, Curious, Passing

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

Compassion, Surely, Orthodoxy

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

Language, Church, Generation

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

Long, Run, Deadly

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

Life, True, Christian

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

Mind, Greatest, System

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

Important, Living, Themselves

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

Guilty, Generation, Sin

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
Francis Schaeffer

Life, Whole, Answer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Theologian

Born: January 30, 1912

Died: May 15, 1984

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