Top 60 Sally Clarkson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “All people need a place where their roots can grow deep and they always feel like they belong and have a loving refuge. And all people need a place that gives wings to their dreams, nurturing possibilities of who they might become.”

— Sally Clarkson

2. “Managing our stress and our rest is a sign of living wisely. Refueling as a way to find joy, to create pleasure, and to celebrate life in the midst of all its demands fills our hearts with renewed hope. When we take the time to breathe, listen, and rest from the daily grind to see miracles bubbling up in our lives.”

— Sally Clarkson

3. “Own your faith. Take responsibility for the miracles God wants to do in and through your life. No one else can faithfully show the people He has entrusted into your care what it means to live by faith. No one else can accomplish the work He created you to do.”

— Sally Clarkson

4. “You are capable of more than you know. You are the right one to handle your life. And what is more, you are never alone in the journey. You have your Girls’ Club around you, and more fundamentally than that, you have God. I think you have it in you to go a little bit farther.”

— Sally Clarkson

5. “God desires to work supernaturally through normal people who are willing to follow Him wholeheartedly and reflect His glory.”

— Sally Clarkson

6. “There is no single way to serve God, but the point is this: We each have only one life to live to tell a story about Him, about His ways, about His love. And if we are Christ followers, then God calls us to use our gifts, to exercise our faith, and to become salt and light right where we are.”

— Sally Clarkson

7. “The mother who reaches the heartfelt needs of her children by helping them feel loved and secure, by believing in their dreams, by noticing when they stray and gently steering them back in the right direction, and by teaching them what they need to know to live full and meaningful lives accomplishes a great work for the Lord.”

— Sally Clarkson

8. “Beauty is about picturing God’s unchanging goodness and daring to bring it into my own small, dusty days.”

— Sally Clarkson

9. “Words make worlds.”

— Sally Clarkson

10. “I began to picture my children’s hearts as treasure chests of a different sort, and I vowed to fill them with intrinsic treasures: the best stories, memorized Scripture, priceless images of classical art, excellent books, memories from great feasts enjoyed together and special days celebrated, great Bible stories and wisdom passages, plus heart photographs of love given, holidays cherished, lessons learned.”

— Sally Clarkson

11. “Perfection is not a standard he requires of me as a mother, for his grace extends to me as well as to my children. My heartfelt trust in him will be the fuel that energizes my days as I see him draw my children through this gift that will serve them their whole lives.”

— Sally Clarkson

12. “It is natural to quarrel, to be selfish, to live a small-minded life. It is supernatural to love unconditionally, to serve others, to live a life of vision and faith.”

— Sally Clarkson

13. “Look for other women with whom you can connect as well. So many women are isolated – with no friends as neighbors, no family close by, no kindred spirits.”

— Sally Clarkson

14. “Women who know their God should be mirror reflections of His beauty, vibrant character, generous love, and wisdom. But to reflect such attributes, we must invest time and thought in what our minds and hearts are becoming.”

— Sally Clarkson

15. “If you have time for television but not for personal time with the Father, then you don’t understand the value of your relationship with Him. If you spend hours on the Internet each week but rarely open your Bible, you are not committed to the honor of knowing and listening to Him.”

— Sally Clarkson

16. “Understanding that influence is best cultivated through love and friendship, I sought to deepen my sympathy for what was going on in their hearts, to understand their personalities, to affirm their intrinsic worth to me and to God and to others, and to encourage them on a daily basis.”

— Sally Clarkson

17. “When I look into her searching blue eyes, I am filled with wonder and an urgent sense of desire. I want to be a better woman, to walk this path of life well beside her, to point her towards God’s fingerprints and kindness, to live a full, abundant life so that she, too, can know that she is free to live into hers.”

— Sally Clarkson

18. “Running at such a pace to keep all of these balls in the air left me gasping for breath and longing for attention and support.”

— Sally Clarkson

19. “Our individual personalities are a gift of His design so that we might add color and variety to the world. And He can use our unique combination of circumstances – even the painful ones like mental illness – for our good and His glory.”

— Sally Clarkson

20. “How we need more “homemakers” so that all who live in this transient, contemporary world might have a place to belong, to feel loved and valued, to serve and be served, to give and receive and celebrate all that is good. So.”

— Sally Clarkson

21. “Although our culture seems to worship being busy, constant activity will slowly undermine our perspective on life and kill our souls.”

— Sally Clarkson

22. “He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will suffer harm. PROVERBS 13:20.”

— Sally Clarkson

23. “Praying with You Lord, so often we are overwhelmed by all the tasks ahead of us. Today help us to turn our eyes to You so that we can discern between the truly important tasks and those that will not add any real value to our lives. May we look to You as our Peace today. Amen.”

— Sally Clarkson

24. “Sometimes celebrating, enjoying, and laughing seem almost inappropriate in a world as broken as ours. We look around and see panic on the faces of everyone we see. Tragedies become ordinary. How, in good conscience, can we laugh and celebrate and eat pizza? I believe we must celebrate – because celebration is one of the most effective weapons we have against the darkness of our day. The real grief of the state of our world is the pervasive fear that settles in our hearts.”

— Sally Clarkson

25. “We are hungry for the sustenance of sturdy, deep friendships, but we are fed an idea of friendship that is neither nourishing nor satisfying. Friendship can and must be so much more.”

— Sally Clarkson

26. “From the moment we take our first breaths, our days are numbered, so how we live matters. The decisions we make – the important ones and, yes, the mundane ones too – they all matter. Everyday decisions add up to form the life we live and the legacy we leave behind.”

— Sally Clarkson

27. “We have to learn to lean into life as something beautiful even if it is not exactly what we expected. Trusting that God works all things together for the good despite the challenges we face is a gift of worship we give to God. Acceptance with humility must eventually come to each of us if we are to please God and not always fight against the limitations of our own family pattern.”

— Sally Clarkson

28. “If the precious, limited hours of my day are used bit by bit in scanning information, I will have less and less time for the attentive, slow, good work of creativity, conversation, and connection that real people and real homes require.”

— Sally Clarkson

29. “Managing our stress and our rest is a sign of living wisely.”

— Sally Clarkson

30. “When it was time to make breakfast, I moved into my Martha mode. I got irritated that I was the only one working while everyone else stumbled slowly into the kitchen. Before I knew it, I’d had a small explosion. I threw a wet blanket over the moods of everyone, and my good intentions were spoiled by my failure to control my spirit.”

— Sally Clarkson

31. “We must learn to cherish all the moments of our lives and to call them holy.”

— Sally Clarkson

32. “Home is your garden of life, so to speak, and you are free to order it and plant it as you will. But all great works of life must be planned in order to make them productive, useful, and flourishing.”

— Sally Clarkson

33. “We allow the habit of busyness to replace our habits of prayer and Scripture reading.”

— Sally Clarkson

34. “Be sure to get away often enough that you are regularly exposed to God’s art and able to remember that He is transcendent above all the details of your life.”

— Sally Clarkson

35. “Every day in each inch of space, each rhythm of time, each practice of love, we have the chance to join God in coming home, in living so that we make a home of this broken and beautiful world all over again. Love is enfleshed in the meals we make, the rooms we fill, the spaces in which we live and breathe and have our being.”

— Sally Clarkson

36. “Only God offers deep-down inner acceptance and approval. Only His unconditional love and acceptance will satisfy our longings. Only His ways bring vibrant health. Paul.”

— Sally Clarkson

37. “When we take the time to breathe, listen, and rest from the daily grind, we will slowly but surely begin to see miracles bubbling up in our lives.”

— Sally Clarkson

38. “We should never expect the world to behave according to our morality, our standards of holiness, or our wisdom. Jesus would still call us to “owe them our love” to fulfill the law.”

— Sally Clarkson

39. “In our hurry-up, multiple-option, online society, we can always leave someone or something we find difficult – a person, a place, a church, a friendship. There is always another option. But real community, long-term friendship, and marriage are precious gifts only to be kept by a commitment to remain in the circle of love they create.”

— Sally Clarkson

40. “Now is the time; today is the day. Own your life. Heaven will tell your story throughout eternity. May you live one worth telling. May you leave a legacy of vibrant faith and a pathway for others that is lavished with generous love and the kiss of God’s favor each step along the way.”

— Sally Clarkson

41. “I didn’t think I was the only one who loved my children but struggled with isolation and boredom in the sometimes overwhelming details of daily life. I believed that, among like-minded women, there was a need for community as we strived to raise godly children without many people to teach us or to share our burden.”

— Sally Clarkson

42. “Jesus’ example of servant leadership sets him apart from so many historical religious leaders. He was not a God who lorded it over his followers and demanded they follow him or coerced their obedience through authoritarianism and fear. Instead, he called them to the excellence of holiness and yet lovingly served them in order to win their hearts and show them the means of reaching others’ hearts as well.”

— Sally Clarkson

43. “Busyness falsely promises productivity.”

— Sally Clarkson

44. “Jesus didn’t come just to save our souls; He came to redeem every part of our lives.”

— Sally Clarkson

45. “If we are consistent in guiding our children in the right direction, and extend grace to them to be immature on the way to maturity then we will have the best chance of maintaining both our standards and a close relationship with our children.”

— Sally Clarkson

46. “In a culture that often views a child in terms of the expense in time and money he will cost in his lifetime, how important it is to intentionally recognize the infinite value of a tiny human being, created with the very imprint and image of God on his life, and to understand that this little one’s life will have consequences for eternity.”

— Sally Clarkson

47. “We are not computers; we cannot download information about God or life by direct transfer. Life is beautiful and barren and impossibly complex. Books and conferences help us think about our lives, but most of life is not thinking about life – it’s living through.”

— Sally Clarkson

48. “Deep friendships are often so very hard to find because this is the fallen place.”

— Sally Clarkson

49. “Owning your life – your actions and decisions, and their consequences – must begin with a healthy view of yourself that is based on what God thinks of you. Once you listen to His voice, your self-perception will change.”

— Sally Clarkson

50. “Taking time away to really seek God and to remember what He has done always shows us a bigger picture of Him.”

— Sally Clarkson