Francis Schaeffer Quotes

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us, and then at the infinity of space. We are rather small insignificant creatures, wouldn’t you say?

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.

I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?

I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and as a very young boy I felt the presence of divinity in my life through the experiences that I had in connection with the Catholic church.

The local church is the hope of the world.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

The temple is a point of intersection between heaven and earth. In this sacred place, holy work will be performed through selfless service and love. The temple reminds [us] of all that is good and beautiful in the world.

The temple is the house of the Lord. The basis for every temple ordinance and covenant…is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Every activity, every lesson, all we do in the Church, point to the Lord and His holy house.

In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.

There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God.

I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

I don't go to church so much, but I do believe in God and I understand the consequences of faith.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.