Quote

Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital 'T.' Truth about total reality, not just about religious things. Biblical Christianity is Truth concerning total reality - and the intellectual holding of that total Truth and then living in the light of that Truth.

Francis Schaeffer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francis Schaeffer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: May 15
Author
Philosopher
Theologian
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
Francis August Schaeffer
Francis A. Schaeffer
Reality
Holding
Light
Total
Truth
Series
Plural
Things
Christianity
Spelled
Intellectual
Concerning
Religious
Biblical
Rather
Truths
Living
Capital

More quotes by Francis Schaeffer

Image
Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air
Francis Schaeffer
Image
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
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.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more important. Despite our constant talk about the Lordship of Christ, we have narrowed its scope to a very small area of reality.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
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.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
Belief does not change what is.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
Francis Schaeffer
Image
There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every point of view an equal chance to be heard. And it works fairly well - unless you are a Christian.
Francis Schaeffer