Edith Schaeffer

It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is…

— Edith Schaeffer

Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the…

— Edith Schaeffer

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will…

— Edith Schaeffer

There is something about saying, 'We always do this,' which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that…

— Edith Schaeffer

“It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that…

— Edith Schaeffer

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

— Edith Schaeffer

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature,…

— Edith Schaeffer

“I cannot understand the almost exclusive emphasis on racial integration, when in fact we are getting more and more segregated into tight…

— Edith Schaeffer

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in…

— Edith Schaeffer

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

— Edith Schaeffer

There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in…

— Edith Schaeffer

There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we…

— Edith Schaeffer

“For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more…

— Edith Schaeffer

“I often advise young brides who are traveling during their first weeks or months of marriage to start "homemaking" in a hotel,…

— Edith Schaeffer

“Writing for enjoyment of expression does not need an audience of more than one.”

— Edith Schaeffer

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the…

— Edith Schaeffer

If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home…

— Edith Schaeffer

“God's fighting for us does not exclude the responsibility to be prepared for battle both in the area of strategy and in…

— Edith Schaeffer

If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual…

— Edith Schaeffer

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

— Edith Schaeffer

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

— Edith Schaeffer

Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on…

— Edith Schaeffer

What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice…

— Edith Schaeffer

Is a Christian- one who communicates daily with the Creator- to divorce himself from the things God created and intended man to…

— Edith Schaeffer

There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others…

— Edith Schaeffer