Francis Schaeffer

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation loving confrontation but confrontation nevertheless.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.