Francis Schaeffer Quotes

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

I know what sin is.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

We are all sinners.

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

The gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses much more than avoiding, overcoming, and being cleansed from sin and the bad influences in our lives; it also essentially entails doing good, being good, and becoming better. Repenting of our sins and seeking forgiveness are spiritually necessary, and we must always do so.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.