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 starkness…

- Edith Schaeffer

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

- Edith Schaeffer

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

- Edith Schaeffer

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 in the first person…

- Edith Schaeffer

Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the people of God. The…

- Edith Schaeffer

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 level, should certainly …

- Edith Schaeffer

Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another im…

- Edith Schaeffer

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 not be able to express ourselves in, b…

- Edith Schaeffer

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 on meaning t…

- Edith Schaeffer