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Sally Clarkson QUOTES

1 " A challenging career suddenly seemed more productive to me because I could measure the results of my work. These precious little ones had endless needs. They were busy little sinful creatures who demanded all of my body, time, life, emotions, and attention! As much as I loved my children, I often felt like a failure. Surely someone else could do a better job with these precious ones than I. And what exactly was I supposed to be accomplishing anyway? Was I wasting my time? What had this husband, who professed to love me, done to me? "

― Sally Clarkson , The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child's Heart for Eternity

2 " Home is to be a safe place, a refuge for all who enter, a protection from the harm and storms of the world. Yet often or even daily we open our doors -- usually via television or the internet -- to ideas and images that can damage our faith, abuse our hearts and minds, sear our psyches, and tear apart our peace. Home should be a place where, behind its doors, one should expect to find protection and safety from all the harms of life, including voices that do not speak truth or wisdom. Only the foolish would invite just anyone to enter the door of their home. "

― Sally Clarkson , The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

3 " Still, on a daily basis, I have to remember to release, to choose patience, to ask for forgiveness when I blow it. But now we have a rhythm to our family that is built on a foundation of unconditional love. Not matter what happens, at the end of the day, this is the place where we all return:
"I am committed to loving you and accepting you as God has made you."
"I will always be here for you."
"I will always have your back and be a friend, whatever life holds."
"I will help you search for answers and support your growth."
"I will be a refuge you can come home to."
"We are a family, and we will love each other always and always. "

― Sally Clarkson , Different: The Story of an Outside-The-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him

4 " God gave each of us a will-the ability to decide what we are "willing" to do. He did not make us like puppets that can be forced to act in a certain way. Instead, He created us so that we must set the direction of our own hearts and minds. Our attitudes ultimately guide our moment-by-moment choices, as well as the biggest decisions of our lives. "

― Sally Clarkson , Own Your Life: How to Grow a Legacy of Faith, Love, and Spiritual Influence

5 " It took me a little while, but I learned to see my "time-outs" as necessities, not luxuries, and to be vigilant about making room for them in my life. Without them, I found it almost impossible to provide the kind of welcoming, accepting home experience that Nathan and all my children needed. "

― Sally Clarkson , Different: The Story of an Outside-The-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him

6 " In the absence of biblical conviction, people will go the way of culture. "

― Sally Clarkson

7 " Today when you nurture, love and meet the needs of your beloveds with beauty, it will make a difference in how they face their whole day. "

― Sally Clarkson

8 " I always wanted to be a hero--to sacrifice my life in a big way one time--and yet, God has required my sacrifice to be thousands of days, over many years, with one more kiss, one more story, one more meal. "

― Sally Clarkson

9 " 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 , The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

10 " 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 , The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

11 " The most important gift you can give your child is to help them begin a walk of faith with the God of the universe. From the moment your children arrive in your home, you are teaching them how to see the world, what to consider important, what to seek, what to love. As a mother, you have the opportunity to form your home and family life in such a way that God’s reality comes alive to your children each day. "

― Sally Clarkson , 10 Gifts of Wisdom: What Every Child Must Know Before They Leave Home

12 " I often must sacrifice my own needs and desires for the purpose of giving my children what they need and modeling for them the depths of Christ's love.

"...make myself available in the routine tasks and myriad interruptions of daily life b/c I believe it is God's will for me to serve my family through them. "

― Sally Clarkson , The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child's Heart for Eternity

13 " 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 , The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

14 " God sees you. He made you, knows you, and loves you. You can trust Him. Part of our issue with not fully surrendering our lives to Jesus is because we don’t really know if we can trust Him. "

― Sally Clarkson , You Are Loved: Embracing the Everlasting Love God has for You

15 " But my parents understood that the world that they made within the walls of our house was what constituted home. So I grew up in spaces framed by art and color, filled with candlelight, marked by beauty. I grew up within a rhythm of time made sacred by family devotions in the morning and long conversations in the evening. I grew up with the sense of our daily life as a feast and delight; a soup-and-bread dinner by the fire, Celtic music lilting in the shadows, and the laughter of my siblings gave me a sense of the blessedness of love, of God's life made tangible in the food and touch and air of our home.
It was a fight for my parents, I know. Every day was a battle to bring order to mess, peace to stressful situations, beauty to the chaos wrought by four young children. But that's the reality of incarnation as it invades a fallen world....What my parents-bless them-knew...is that to make a home right in the midst of the fallen world is to craft out a space of human flesh and existence in which eternity rises up in time, in which the kingdom comes, in which we may taste and see the goodness of God. "

― Sally Clarkson , The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

16 " 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 , The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith Through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

17 " 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 , Own Your Life: How to Grow a Legacy of Faith, Love, and Spiritual Influence

18 " God desires to work supernaturally through normal people who are willing to follow Him wholeheartedly and reflect His glory. "

― Sally Clarkson , Own Your Life: How to Grow a Legacy of Faith, Love, and Spiritual Influence

19 " 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 , Own Your Life: How to Grow a Legacy of Faith, Love, and Spiritual Influence

20 " When someone once asked me just what it was that my parents did that made me believe in God, without even thinking I said, “I think it was French toast on Saturday mornings and coffee and Celtic music and discussions and candlelight in the evenings . . .” Because in those moments I tasted and saw the goodness of God in a way I couldn’t ignore. "

― Sally Clarkson , The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming