Top 18 Edith Schaeffer Quotes
#1. 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?
Edith Schaeffer
#2. The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves ... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.
Edith Schaeffer
#3. Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and understood, so that the people are prepared to give comfort to others.
Edith Schaeffer
#4. For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more important to write than it is to study about writing.
Edith Schaeffer
#5. We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.
Edith Schaeffer
#6. Writing for enjoyment of expression does not need an audience of more than one.
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#7. It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
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#8. 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).
Edith Schaeffer
#9. When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.
Edith Schaeffer
#10. 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.
Edith Schaeffer
#11. In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.
Edith Schaeffer
#12. 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
#13. Whether in music, or other things, one never knows what surprisingly satisfying things God has in His plan for the developed talent with is literally 'given' to Him to use or to lay aside.
Edith Schaeffer
#14. People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it
Edith Schaeffer
#15. I cannot understand the almost exclusive emphasis on racial integration, when in fact we are getting more and more segregated into tight little cliques on age grounds.
Edith Schaeffer
#16. 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.
Edith Schaeffer
#17. Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.
Edith Schaeffer
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