Edith Schaeffer Quotes

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• Don't be fearful about the journey ahead; don't worry about where you are going or how you are going to get there. If you believe…
• What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to…
• We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.
• A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite…
• Is a Christian- one who communicates daily with the Creator- to divorce himself from the things God created and intended man to have, and which…
• It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being…
• I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny…
• There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we may or may…
• If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in…
• If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it…
• It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to…
• Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty…
• Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important…
• It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
• All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in…
• There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of…
• Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.
• It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes…
• Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A…
• There is something about saying, 'We always do this,' which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we keep…

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