Francis Schaeffer Quotes

United States, Theologian
January 30, 1912 – May, 15, 1984.

Francis August Schaeffer (January 30, 1912 – May 15, 1984) was an American Evangelical Christian theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor. He is best known for establishing 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.

Also known as Philosopher, Pastor

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

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

Francis Schaeffer
- Life

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

Francis Schaeffer
- World
- Compassion
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
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
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
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
- Relationship
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
- Responsibility
- Church

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

Francis Schaeffer
- Believe
- Long