Francis Schaeffer Quotes

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam.

The version I got of Christianity was quite confusing to me, even as a child, because there were certain things that didn't add up.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.

Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist. Only he gives the fullness of life to humanity! With Mary, say your own "yes" to God, for he wishes to give himself to you.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk.

Theology is Classified Superstition.

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.