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Top 15 Edith Schaeffer Quotes (2025 Update)

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.”

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

— Edith Schaeffer

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.”

2. “In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.”

— Edith Schaeffer

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person’s eyes alone!”

4. “It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person’s eyes alone!”

— Edith Schaeffer

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.”

6. “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

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “It makes sense that there is no sense without God.”

7. “It makes sense that there is no sense without God.”

— Edith Schaeffer

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “Remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and gave you the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation. Creativity is His gift to you and the ‘raw materials’ to be put together in various ways are His gift to you as well.”

8. “Remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and gave you the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation. Creativity is His gift to you and the ‘raw materials’ to be put together in various ways are His gift to you as well.”

— Edith Schaeffer

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “Because man was created in the image of a creator. Man was created that he might create. It is not a waste of mans time to be creative. It is not a waste to pursue artistic or scientific pursuits in creativity, because this is what man was made to be able to do. He was made in he image of a creator, and given the capacity to create.”

11. “Because man was created in the image of a creator. Man was created that he might create. It is not a waste of mans time to be creative. It is not a waste to pursue artistic or scientific pursuits in creativity, because this is what man was made to be able to do. He was made in he image of a creator, and given the capacity to create.”

— Edith Schaeffer

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.”

12. “Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.”

— Edith Schaeffer

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “People so often look with longing into a daydream future, while ignoring the importance of the present. We are all in danger of thinking, “Some day I shall be fulfilled. Some day I shall have the courage to start another life which will develop my talent,” without ever considering the very practical use of that talent today in a way which will enrich other people’s lives, develop the talent, and express the fact of being a creative creature.”

13. “People so often look with longing into a daydream future, while ignoring the importance of the present. We are all in danger of thinking, “Some day I shall be fulfilled. Some day I shall have the courage to start another life which will develop my talent,” without ever considering the very practical use of that talent today in a way which will enrich other people’s lives, develop the talent, and express the fact of being a creative creature.”

— Edith Schaeffer

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “You have started, whether you recognize that fact or not. We foolish mortals sometimes live through years of not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is our life. The day comes when we die.”

14. “You have started, whether you recognize that fact or not. We foolish mortals sometimes live through years of not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is our life. The day comes when we die.”

— Edith Schaeffer

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “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?”

15. “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

Edith Schaeffer Quote: “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 to do something interesting, but never do it, year would follow year with no special thoughtfulness being expressed in making gifts, surprises, charming table settings, and familiar food. Tradition is a good gift intended to guard the best gifts.”

16. “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 to do something interesting, but never do it, year would follow year with no special thoughtfulness being expressed in making gifts, surprises, charming table settings, and familiar food. Tradition is a good gift intended to guard the best gifts.”

— Edith Schaeffer

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