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Top 25 Sarah Mackenzie Quotes (2025 Update)

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “A book can’t change the world on its own. But a book can change readers. And readers? They can change the world.”

1. “A book can’t change the world on its own. But a book can change readers. And readers? They can change the world.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “Rest, then, is not the absence of work or toil. It is the absence of anxiety or frenzy.”

2. “Rest, then, is not the absence of work or toil. It is the absence of anxiety or frenzy.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “Take a deep breath, mama. This isn’t as dependent on you as you think it is. Give God your “Here I am. Use me.” Let Him carry the burden.”

3. “Take a deep breath, mama. This isn’t as dependent on you as you think it is. Give God your “Here I am. Use me.” Let Him carry the burden.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “If God expected you to get thirty-six hours’ worth of work done in a day, He would have given you thirty-six hours to do it. If you have more to do than time to do it in, the simple fact is this: Some of what you are doing isn’t on His agenda for you.”

4. “If God expected you to get thirty-six hours’ worth of work done in a day, He would have given you thirty-six hours to do it. If you have more to do than time to do it in, the simple fact is this: Some of what you are doing isn’t on His agenda for you.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “If you want a child to know the truth, tell him the truth. If you want a child to love the truth, tell him a story.”

5. “If you want a child to know the truth, tell him the truth. If you want a child to love the truth, tell him a story.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “The daily mundane is holy ground because the ordinary tasks of a monotonous Monday are where we meet our Maker.”

6. “The daily mundane is holy ground because the ordinary tasks of a monotonous Monday are where we meet our Maker.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “What if, instead of trying to make the most of our time, we worked harder at savoring it?”

7. “What if, instead of trying to make the most of our time, we worked harder at savoring it?”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “We need our kids to fall in love with stories before they are even taught their first letters, if possible, because everything else – phonics, comprehension, analysis, even writing – comes so much more easily when a child loves books.”

8. “We need our kids to fall in love with stories before they are even taught their first letters, if possible, because everything else – phonics, comprehension, analysis, even writing – comes so much more easily when a child loves books.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “Raising our children isn’t just about getting them ready for adulthood. It isn’t just about preparation for a career. It’s about transforming and shaping their hearts and minds. It’s about nourishing their souls, building relationships, and forging connections. It’s about nurturing within them care and compassion for whomever they encounter.”

9. “Raising our children isn’t just about getting them ready for adulthood. It isn’t just about preparation for a career. It’s about transforming and shaping their hearts and minds. It’s about nourishing their souls, building relationships, and forging connections. It’s about nurturing within them care and compassion for whomever they encounter.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “Rest begins with acceptance. Or, perhaps more accurately, with surrender. There will always be more you can do. You will never complete your tasks entirely, because just on the horizon is tomorrow, and tomorrow the to-do list starts anew. It is so exhausting – sometimes even demoralizing – to realize that our work in raising up and teaching our children is never really done. But we must remember that we were never intended to finish it.”

10. “Rest begins with acceptance. Or, perhaps more accurately, with surrender. There will always be more you can do. You will never complete your tasks entirely, because just on the horizon is tomorrow, and tomorrow the to-do list starts anew. It is so exhausting – sometimes even demoralizing – to realize that our work in raising up and teaching our children is never really done. But we must remember that we were never intended to finish it.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “The God who turned water into wine can take our smallest efforts and weave them into a glorious tapestry for His delight.”

11. “The God who turned water into wine can take our smallest efforts and weave them into a glorious tapestry for His delight.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “When my head hits the pillow each night, I want to know that I have done the one most important thing: I have fostered warm, happy memories and created lifelong bonds with my kids – even when the rest of life feels hard.”

12. “When my head hits the pillow each night, I want to know that I have done the one most important thing: I have fostered warm, happy memories and created lifelong bonds with my kids – even when the rest of life feels hard.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “Educating our children is an offering of love we make to the God who was so gracious to bestow them upon us in the first place.”

13. “Educating our children is an offering of love we make to the God who was so gracious to bestow them upon us in the first place.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “No one will ever say, no matter how good a parent he or she was, “I think I spent too much time with my children when they were young.”

14. “No one will ever say, no matter how good a parent he or she was, “I think I spent too much time with my children when they were young.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “All true education begins in wonder and ends in wisdom – as.”

15. “All true education begins in wonder and ends in wisdom – as.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “When we’re telling our children the story of Jesus healing Jairus’s daughter, of curing the lepers, of raising Lazarus from the dead, we don’t need to wrap up the story with a trite explanation about how God is powerful, good, or merciful. We don’t have to add anything at all, because there it is – truth bubbling up out of the story. It is the story.”

16. “When we’re telling our children the story of Jesus healing Jairus’s daughter, of curing the lepers, of raising Lazarus from the dead, we don’t need to wrap up the story with a trite explanation about how God is powerful, good, or merciful. We don’t have to add anything at all, because there it is – truth bubbling up out of the story. It is the story.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “The true aim of education is to order a child’s affections – to teach him to love what he ought and hate what he ought. Our greatest task, then, is to put living ideas in front of our children like a feast. We have been charged to cultivate the souls of our children, to nourish them in truth, goodness, and beauty, to raise them up in wisdom and eloquence. It is to those ends that we labor. We toil because we long to be like the man in Psalm.”

17. “The true aim of education is to order a child’s affections – to teach him to love what he ought and hate what he ought. Our greatest task, then, is to put living ideas in front of our children like a feast. We have been charged to cultivate the souls of our children, to nourish them in truth, goodness, and beauty, to raise them up in wisdom and eloquence. It is to those ends that we labor. We toil because we long to be like the man in Psalm.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “We read with our children because it gives both them and us an education of the heart and mind. Of intellect and empathy. We read together and learn because stories teach us how to love.”

18. “We read with our children because it gives both them and us an education of the heart and mind. Of intellect and empathy. We read together and learn because stories teach us how to love.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “Our curriculum is the course that we travel.”

19. “Our curriculum is the course that we travel.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “Some people call it multi-tasking, as though it’s a skill to be desired and honed, but I know it’s really a lack of focus-a refusal to seek out the important things.”

20. “Some people call it multi-tasking, as though it’s a skill to be desired and honed, but I know it’s really a lack of focus-a refusal to seek out the important things.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life- the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls ones’ ‘real life’ is a phantom of one’s own imagination.”

21. “The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life- the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls ones’ ‘real life’ is a phantom of one’s own imagination.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “Pacing doesn’t matter if you are sacrificing mastery and love for truth, goodness, and beauty.”

22. “Pacing doesn’t matter if you are sacrificing mastery and love for truth, goodness, and beauty.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “When read-aloud time doesn’t look like we originally hoped, we begin to doubt that it’s giving us any of those wonderful benefits we discussed in part 1. But here’s the thing: it still works. Even when it’s noisy, messy, and more chaotic than you’d like it to be, it works. Even when kids are grumbling, complaining, and don’t seem to be listening, it works.”

23. “When read-aloud time doesn’t look like we originally hoped, we begin to doubt that it’s giving us any of those wonderful benefits we discussed in part 1. But here’s the thing: it still works. Even when it’s noisy, messy, and more chaotic than you’d like it to be, it works. Even when kids are grumbling, complaining, and don’t seem to be listening, it works.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “His research demonstrates that one extra day per week of parent-child read-aloud sessions during the first ten years of a child’s life increases standardized test scores by half a standard deviation. That’s as many as 15–30 percentile points – a tremendous gain.3.”

24. “His research demonstrates that one extra day per week of parent-child read-aloud sessions during the first ten years of a child’s life increases standardized test scores by half a standard deviation. That’s as many as 15–30 percentile points – a tremendous gain.3.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “We are weary because we forget about grace. We act as though God’s showing up is the miracle. But guess what? God’s showing up is the given. Grace is a fact.”

25. “We are weary because we forget about grace. We act as though God’s showing up is the miracle. But guess what? God’s showing up is the given. Grace is a fact.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “The great educator Charlotte Mason says that when we put children in direct contact with great ideas and get out of the way, “Teachers shall teach less and scholars shall learn more.” Any homeschooling parent who has observed her own children for any length of time will know this to be true. Real learning happens when our children wrestle directly with great ideas- not as a result of our repackaging those great ideas, but when they interact with the ideas themselves.”

26. “The great educator Charlotte Mason says that when we put children in direct contact with great ideas and get out of the way, “Teachers shall teach less and scholars shall learn more.” Any homeschooling parent who has observed her own children for any length of time will know this to be true. Real learning happens when our children wrestle directly with great ideas- not as a result of our repackaging those great ideas, but when they interact with the ideas themselves.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “Home is the only place in which our children have a fighting chance of falling in love with books.”

27. “Home is the only place in which our children have a fighting chance of falling in love with books.”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “What better education can we offer our children than the shaping of their hearts to love others as we have been loved by God ourselves?”

28. “What better education can we offer our children than the shaping of their hearts to love others as we have been loved by God ourselves?”

— Sarah Mackenzie

Sarah Mackenzie Quote: “To have an exact accounting of events in the particular order they unfolded in history, or to possess the ability to see God in every person, in every situation, in every place?”

29. “To have an exact accounting of events in the particular order they unfolded in history, or to possess the ability to see God in every person, in every situation, in every place?”

— Sarah Mackenzie

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