List of Edith Schaeffer Quotes

It Is Not A Waste To Write Beautiful Prose Or Poetry For One Person's Eyes Alone!

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 Or Large, A Hut Or A Palace) Orderly, Artistic And Beautiful With Some Form Of Creativity, Some Form Of ‘art’ (p. 213).

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 Seems To Me Two Things Will Happen: First, You Will Develop Into The Person You Could Be As You Surround Yourself With Things That Express Your Own Tastes And Ideas; And Second, As You Relax And Become Interested In Areas Of Creativity, You Will Develop Into A More Interesting Person To Be With.

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 And Flavour Of Food, The Increase Of Blood Sugar And Physical Well-being, Help One To Go On During The Next Hours Better Equipped To Meet The Problems (p. 124).

When People Insist On Perfection Or Nothing, They Get Nothing.

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 Have Expensive Food On The Plates Before They Can Enter The Dining Room As Things Of Beauty In Colour And Texture. Food Should Be Served With Real Care As To The Colour And Texture On The Plates, As Well As With Imaginative Taste. This Is Where Artistic Talent And Aesthetic Expression And Fulfillment Come In.

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 Time And Energy — Or There Would Never Be Any Production At All To Be Seen, Felt Or Enjoyed By Ourselves Or Others. To Develop ‘hidden Art’ Will Also, Of Course, Take Time And Energy – And The Balance Of The Use Of Time Is A Constant Individual Problem For All Of Us: What To Do, And What To Leave Undone. One Is Always Having To Neglect One Thing In Order To Give Precedence To Something Else. The Question Is One Of Priorities

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 For The Person, And Can Tremendously Enrich The Lives Of Other People. What Can You Do?

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, World Events, Vocabulary, And Everything Else.

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 A Big Push Of Work, But They Should Be Always More Than Just Food.

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 Demonstrate The Fact That Man Has Been Made In The Image Of God? In Other Words, Are We Who Have Been Made In The Image Of Our Creator To Be Less Creative Than Those Who Do Not Know The Creator? The Christian Should Have More Vividly Expressed Creativity In His Daily Life.

Encouraged, We Recognise The Importance Of Living Artistically, Aesthetically And Creatively As Creative Creatures Of The Creator.