Dose of Schaeffer

"I am such a small person. I don't have many talents. I'm weak. Nothing I do has any real significance." says many a Christian about the possibility of being used by God. Schaeffer's response to that man or woman is that, "with God, there are no little people."

"Our attitude toward all men should be that of equality because we are common creatures. We are of one blood and kind. As I look across all the world, I must see every man as a fellow-creature, and I must be careful to have a sense of our equality on the basis of this common status. We must be careful in our thinking not to try to stand in the place of God to other men. We are fellow-creatures."

"God's people are to be active, not seeking, on account of some false mystical concept, to sit constantly in the shade of a rock. There is no monasticism in Christianity."

"The Scripture emphasizes that much can come from little if the little is truly consecrated to God. There are no little people and no big people in the true spiritual sense, but only consecrated and unconsecrated people. The problem for each of us is applying this truth to ourselves: is Francis Schaeffer the Francis Schaeffer of God?"


--Francis A. Schaeffer, No Little People, Ch. 1