Francis A. Schaeffer Quotes

We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage.

We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state.

The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces instead of totals.

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.

The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.

In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

The Christian should be the man with the flaming imagination and the beauty of creation.

Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king

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.

We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their origin-who they are. God tells man who he is. God tells us that He created man in His image. So man is something wonderful.