We must ask, Do I fight merely from doctrinal faithfulness? This is like the wife who never sleeps with anybody else but never shows love to her own husband. Is that a sufficient relationship in marriage? No, ten thousand times no. Yet if I am a Christian who speaks and acts for doctrinal faithfulness but do not show love to my divine bridegroom, I am in the same place as such a wife. What God wants from us is not only doctrinal faithfulness, but our love day by day. Not in theory, mind you, but in practice.
— Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984), Apologet
Topics: Love, Discipleship, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Occasions: For Reflection
Francis Schaeffer
Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984) war ein US-amerikanischer presbyterianischer Pastor und Apologet, der ab 1955 in der Schweiz die Lebens- und Studiengemeinschaft L’Abri aufbaute. Bekannt wurde er durch seine Auseinandersetzung mit säkularer Philosophie und Kulturgeschichte, wobei Fachkollegen seine Darstellungen teils als stark vereinfachend und wegbereitend für die politisierte christliche Rechte einstuften. Für Bibelleser steht er für den Anspruch, den christlichen Glauben im intellektuellen Dialog mit zeitgenössischen Fragen rational zu begründen.
All quotes by Francis Schaeffer (21)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was love.
Max Lucado
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I ask myself: what does hell mean? I maintain: it is the inability to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A drop of love is worth more than an ocean of reason.
Blaise Pascal
Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
Craig Groeschel
The world consists of nothing but opportunities for love.
Søren Kierkegaard