Francis Schaeffer Quotes

It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.

There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

There are many concepts of spirituality, among them, various notions of divinity developed in the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religions. Within these the concepts vary greatly.

Logical thinking will not be enough to get answers to the questions that matter most in life. We need revelation from God.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

God speaks to us, through His Word by His Spirit.

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

That is the voice of God because its the voice of truth and experience.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

Dreams are the language of God.

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know. The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. ... God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.