Francis Schaeffer Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more important. Despite our constant talk about the Lordship of Christ, we have narrowed its scope to a very small area of reality.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, Taken

  "Art & the Bible: Two Essays".

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• ...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.

• 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

• They are equal reality. They are two streams of present reality, both equally promised. The Christian dead are already with Christ now, and Christ really lives in the Christian. Christ lives in me. The Christ who was crucified, the Christ whose work is finished, the Christ who is glorified now, has promised (John 15) to bring forth fruit in the Christian, just as the sap of the vine brings forth the fruit in the branch.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Reality

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.92, NavPress

• To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Reality, Ideas

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.49, 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.

• The reality of living by faith as though we were already dead, of living by faith in open communion with God, and then stepping back into the external world as though we are already raised from the dead, this is not once for all, it is a matter of moment-by-moment faith, and living moment by moment. This morning's faith will never do for this noon. The faith of this noon will never do for suppertime . The faith of suppertime will never do for the next morning. Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Morning, Communication

  "The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent".

• God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to man in language about both spiritual reality and physical reality, about the nature of God and the nature of man.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Spiritual, Reality, Men

• Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital 'T.' Truth about total reality, not just about religious things.
  
  Biblical Christianity is Truth concerning total reality - and the intellectual holding of that total Truth and then living in the light of that Truth.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Religious, Biblical, Reality

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