“Interior decoration is not just one's artistic efforts, but it is that which your home (even if it is just a room) is. If you are 'decorating' with clothes draped on every chair, with scratched and broken furniture- it is… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life. — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting.… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
There is something about saying, 'We always do this,' which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone! — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history,… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand the almost exclusive emphasis on racial integration, when in fact we are getting more and more segregated into tight little cliques… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life. — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we may or… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more important to… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“I often advise young brides who are traveling during their first weeks or months of marriage to start "homemaking" in a hotel, even if… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Writing for enjoyment of expression does not need an audience of more than one.” — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
