Francis Schaeffer Quotes About Spirituality

Quotes about: Spirituality

• There are two main reasons why we may not be bringing forth the fruit we should. It may be because of ignorance, because we may never have been taught the meaning of the work of Christ for our present lives.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Ignorance, Two

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.75, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• When a man comes under the blood of Christ, his whole capacity as a man is refashioned. His soul is saved, yes, but so are his mind and his body. True spirituality means the lordship of Christ over the total man.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Mean, Men, Blood

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

• Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Pain, Shadow

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.141, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• I hesitate to add, but I will, that this is fun. God means Christianity to be fun. There is to be a reality of love and communication in the Christian-to-Christian relationship, individually and corporately, which is completely and truly personal.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Fun

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.144, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• Preaching the gospel without the Holy Spirit is to miss the entire point of the command of Jesus Christ for our era. In the area of "Christian activities" or "Christian service," how we are doing it is at least as important as what we are doing.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Jesus

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.64, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Jesus, Grace, Spirituality

• Hudson Taylor said, "The Lord's work done in the Lord's way will never fail to have the Lord's provision." ...The Lord's work done in human energy is not the Lord's work any longer. It is something, but it is not the Lord's work.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Energy, Done

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.105, NavPress

• In two areas above all others the Christian demonstration of love and communication stands clear: in the area of the Christian couple and their children; and in the personal relationships of Christians in the church. If there is no demonstration in these two places, on the personal level, the world can conclude that orthodox Christian doctrine is nothing but dead, cold words.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Children

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.141, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• The great distinction of a true Christian is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. How careful should he be, lest anything in his thoughts or feelings would be offensive to the Divine Guest.!

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Feelings

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.125, NavPress

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

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Communication, Reality

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.78, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• Sadly enough, there is a kind of an anti-intellectualism among many Christians: spirituality is falsely pitted against intellectual comprehension as though they stood in a dichotomy. Such anti-intellectualism cuts away at the very heart of the Christian message. Of course, there is a false intellectualism which does destroy the work of the Holy Spirit. But it does not arise when men wrestle honestly with honest questions and then see that the Bible has the answers. This does not oppose true spirituality.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Heart, Cutting

• Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Divorce, Giving

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.213, NavPress

• The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper legal relationship - for example, to think of a man as legally lost, which he is, in the sight of a holy God - without thinking of him as a person. Saying this, we can suddenly see that much evangelism is not only sub-Christian, but subhuman - legalistic and impersonal.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Men

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.133, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• But the fact that Christ as the bridegroom brings forth fruit through me as the bride, through the agency of the indwelling Holy Spirit by faith, opens the way for me as a Christian to begin to know in the present life the reality of the supernatural. This is where the Christian is to live. Doctrine is important, but it is not an end in itself. There is to be an experiential reality, moment by moment.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Reality

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Choices, Purpose

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.79, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• ...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Reality, Calling

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.135, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him. Eve doubted, and mankind in revolt doubts God. To believe him, not just when I accept Christ as Savior, but every moment, one moment at a time: this is the Christian life, and this is true spirituality.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Children

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.132, NavPress

• There needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the personal emphasis within that legal concept. In the Church the elder is an office-bearer. But both the preaching elders and the ruling elders are "ministers," and the word "minister" is a personal relationship, it does not speak of dominance. There is to be order in the Church, but the preaching elder or the ruling elder is to be a minister, with a loving personal relationship with those who are before him, even when they are wrong and need admonition.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Order, Office

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.138, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• Eternity will be wonderful, but there is one thing heaven will not contain, and that is the call, the possibility, and the privilege of living a supernatural life here and now by faith, before we meet Jesus face to face.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Jesus, Heaven

• When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Blood, Spirit

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.92, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• ... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Way, Spirituality

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.25, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• ...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Three, Spirituality

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.117, NavPress

• When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ. Now it is covered and it is not honoring to the finished work of Jesus Christ to worry about it, as far as my relationship to God is concerned. Indeed, to worry about it is to do spite to the infinite value of the death of the Son of God. My fellowship with God is restored.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Jesus, Son

  "True Spirituality".

• Here we are told that Christ really lives in me, if I have accepted Christ as my Savior. In other words, we have the words of Jesus to the thief of the cross, 'Today thou wilt be with me in paradise.' Christ can say, 'Today thou wilt be with me in paradise,' and mean it. To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality. But at the same time, Christ, the same Christ who gives the promise just as definitely, that when I have accepted Christ as my savior, he lives in me.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Jesus, Mean

• Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Jesus, Reality

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