We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as God made it, out in the place where God made the ant to be. When we meet the ant on the sidewalk, we step over him. He is a creature, like ourselves; not made in the image of God, it is true, but equal with man as far as creation is concerned. The ant and the man are both creatures.


Pollution and the death of man: the Christian view of ecology (ed. 1970)

Francis Schaeffer Quotes

We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as God made it, out in the place where God ...

We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as God made it, out in the place where God ...

We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as God made it, out in the place where God ...

We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as God made it, out in the place where God ...