Quietness and peace before God are more important than any influence a position may seem to give, for we must stay in step with God to have the power of the Holy Spirit. If by taking a bigger place our quietness with God is lost, then to that extent our fellowship with Him is broken and we are living in the flesh, and the final result will not be as great, no matter how important the larger place may look in the eyes of other men or in our own eyes. Always there will be a battle, always we will be less than perfect, but if a place is too big and too active for our present spiritual condition, then it is too big.
…The final result of not being quiet before God is that less will be done, not more—no matter how much Christendom may be beating its drums or playing its trumpets for a particular activity.
…The size of the place is not important, but the consecration in that place is. —Francis Schaeffer, No Little People
Category: Francis Schaeffer
The Apologist: Leadership is Ministry is Servanthood
To the extent we are called to leadership, we are called to ministry, even costly ministry. The greater the leadership, the greater is to be the ministry. The word minister is not a title of power but a designation of servanthood. —Francis Schaeffer, No Little People
The Apologist: Dangerous Beauty (aka The Forbidden Woman)
Many seem to feel that the greater the art, the less we ought to be critical of its world-view. This we must reverse. —Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible
The Apologist: The Imago Dei and Art
Being in the image of the Creator, we are called upon to have creativity. We never find an animal, non-man, making a work of art. On the other hand, we never find men anywhere in the world or in any culture in the world who do not produce art. Creativity is a part of the distinction between man and non-man. All people are to some degree creative. Creativity is intrinsic to our ‘mannishness.’ —Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible
The Apologist: Holy Love and Lovely Holiness
“Whenever church leaders ask us to choose between the holiness of God and the love of God, we must refuse. For when the love of God becomes compromised, it is not the love of God. When the holiness of God becomes hardness and a lack of beauty, it is not the holiness of God. —Francis Schaeffer, Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History
The Apologist: If the Church Is Barren…
A Christian should put himself into the arms of His bridegroom, Christ, and let Christ produce His fruit through them. Just as a bride cannot produce natural children until she puts herself into the arms the bridegroom, so a Christian cannot produce real spiritual fruit except he put himself in the hands of Christ. —Francis Schaeffer, Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History
The Apologist: What is Still the Watershed of the Evangelical Word
Holding to a strong view of Scripture or not holding to it is the watershed of the evangelical world.
…We must say most lovingly but clearly: evangelicalism is not consistently evangelical unless there is a line drawn between those who take a full view of Scripture and those who do not.
We who bear the name evangelical need to be unitedly those who have the same view of Scripture as William Cowper had when he wrote the hymn, “The Spirit Breathes Upon the Word.” In contrast to any concept of the Bible being borrowed through cultural orientation, the second verse of that hymn reads:
A glory guilds the sacred page,
Majestic like the sun
It gives a light to ever age;
It gives, but borrows none.—Francis Schaeffer, No Final Conflict
The Apologist: Evolution a Theory with Many Unroofs
[E]ven if I were still and agnostic, as once I was, I would not accept the concept of evolution from the molecule to man in unbroken line. My rejection of this does not turn upon my being Christian, but comes rather because I think this concept is weak and certainly has not been proven (in any sense of the word proven). It is a theory with may unproofs. —Francis Schaeffer, No Final Conflict
The Apologist: Little Left but the -ism
It is my conviction that the crucial area of discussion for evangelicalism in the next years will be Scripture. At stake is whether evangelicalism will remain evangelical. —Francis Schaeffer, No Final Conflict
The Apologist: Better a Few Evangelicals than Many -icals
We must say that if evangelicals are to be evangelicals, we must not compromise our view of Scripture. There is no use in evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core—namely the Scriptures. —Francis Schaeffer, No Final Conflict
No Other Boast 