Top 25 Edith Schaeffer Quotes

#1. I'm a lot of things, Tinkerbell. Sweet ain't one of them.

Jasinda Wilder

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#2. 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

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#3. 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

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#4. 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

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#5. Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#6. I'm a lot smarter and thoughtful of a comedian. This market is different than it was. You don't have to have cable to hear this comedy. It comes on a basic channel, and that's one of the biggest differences between now than when I first started.

Joe Torry

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#7. 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

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#8. We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Edith Schaeffer

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#9. Try to rally up as many people as you can with as much information as you can to try to get it to appear in front of the right people in the organization who are the decision-makers to greenlight the project.

Jon Oringer

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#10. Writing for enjoyment of expression does not need an audience of more than one.

Edith Schaeffer

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#11. Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.

Sarah McLachlan

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

Edith Schaeffer

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#13. 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

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

Edith Schaeffer

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#15. 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

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#16. In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

Margaret Mead

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

Edith Schaeffer

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#18. 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

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#19. The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.

Willa Cather

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#20. 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

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#21. 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

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#22. 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

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#23. 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

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#24. Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

Edith Schaeffer

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#25. It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

Edith Schaeffer

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