Francis Schaeffer Quotes

God is in charge, waiting for His people to challenge the rulers of the earth and take the steering wheel from them, ... the battle for the earth is currently going on.

Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.

God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.

Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will

No matter what authority Satan and his subjects have temporarily been allowed in this world system, Christ can pull rank anytime He wants to.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.

God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.

The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.

If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and busy. Depend upon it: a working Christ makes a raging devil! When you hear ill reports, cruel speeches, threats, taunts and the like, believe that the Lord is among His people and is working gloriously.

Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?

If God is not sovereign, God is not God.

He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal.

If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.

The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.