Francis Schaeffer Quotes

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

Anything you think you know about about God, that you can't find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.