Francis Schaeffer Quotes

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

No one can truly know Christ unless they follow him in life.

The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you? Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, 'Follow Me.'

Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christs - an easy going one for easy going Christians, and a suffering one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are we willing to follow His lead?

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.

Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

We're not thinking straight if we say we want to be like Jesus but we don't want to go through anything Jesus went through!

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion.

To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.

Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God.

Adversity makes men remember God.

I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.