Francis Schaeffer Quotes

You cannot hide yourself from any situation.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere.

People want the truth, even if they disagree.

Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.

I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.

I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition!

I don't debate with liars.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

People are always afraid of the truth.

Facing the truth about the past is not always a pleasant adventure

Sometimes people get upset when you tell the truth, when you share the facts as science dictates.

We can't hide from the truth.

If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths.

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.