“The tight little segregated life, always spent with people your own age, economic group, educational background, and culture tends to bring an ingrown, static sort of condition. Fresh ideas, reality of communication and shared experiences will be sparks to light… — 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
