The Lifegiving Table Quotes

“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

“The sacrifice is wasted if the attitude of serving is self-concerned and complaining in nature. How we serve, in other words, is just as important as what we serve.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“Jesus didn’t come just to save our souls; He came to redeem every part of our lives.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“When others are coming to me on a regular basis”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“When we model to our children that pleasure, delight, laughter, and food are not God’s afterthoughts, but His generous gifts to us all, we do them a great favor. For the good of our souls and the souls of our children, we must learn to celebrate to the glory of God.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“Engaging with and enjoying all persons in the family as they are, no matter what stage or age, is essential to build a healthy emotional atmosphere—listening to their fears, laughing at their jokes, seeking to understand their dreams, sympathizing with their fears and hurt feelings, and making sure they always know who they are in the family and in Christ.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“If we are to hold hearts faithful, we must aim intentionally, work diligently and wisely, and allow the Holy Spirit to use us to keep their hearts strong, protected, and sure.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“When we strive to bring beauty into our lives and our homes, we reflect the nature of the One who made us.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“Even as God’s beauty calls out to us in what He has created, beauty in our homes lifts the spirits of all who live or visit there. There is great joy in creating something for the table that pleases the eyes, delights the creative juices, and satisfies our created longing for aesthetic pleasure.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“I picture that I can be an instrument through which God brings life, beauty, and redemption to the limitations of my marriage and my family—because, in His spirit, I am filled with the life that always brings light to the dark places and redemption to the broken places.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“Souls are shaped in the common moments of life, the daily stuff of memories.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“People, after all, are not static collections of information; they are stories waiting and wanting to be told. Our stories are what define us and help to locate us within the greater story of what God is doing in us and in the world—the slow but steady progress of the Kingdom spreading across all creation.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“When we thank God for a meal, we are decisively turning our hearts away from focusing just on our own needs to focusing on the Giver of the good gifts we are about to enjoy.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“When God opens the “eyes of your heart,” you’re able to see the glory that is often hidden in the seemingly ordinary things of life. Things like tables. Like food. Like daily time together.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“Scripture depicts the table as something woven into the fabric of creation by the divine mind and imagination of our creator God, who always creates with purpose and intentionally imbues His creation with meaning. That means it is there for our good.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“The unfortunate reality of modern American culture is that it has robbed too many homes of the once-central role of the table in family life and has stolen the goodness of eating real, home-cooked foods.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“Even the simplest supper, meal, snack, or teatime can become, in some way, a feast—a lavish celebration of the living God’s life and goodness. It’s not just about the physical act of eating, but about sharing and enjoying life as God designed and gave it to us. That is the essence of the lifegiving table.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“Of course we are called to be instruments of His peace, to live righteous lives, and to care for others. But ultimately, our calling is to bring glory to God and to let Him perfect us into the image bearers He always meant us to be. I think sometimes we can bring much more glory to God by being cheerful and delighting in the world and people He has given us than by living a “useful” life where we trot grimly around with a martyr complex that annoys everyone we encounter.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“We must learn to cherish all the moments of our lives and to call them holy.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time