Homemaking

30 Encouraging Homemaker Quotes

February 7, 2025

Homemaking is so much more than just cooking and cleaning. It’s an art of creating and crafting a space filled with care and comfort for those you love. A refuge from the world for weary travelers. Home. With so many items on our to-do lists, managing schedules, and household duties, words can be balm to the soul. Here are 30 encouraging homemaker quotes to uplift and celebrate all the beauty that comes with creating a home.

Homemaker Quotes Filled with Timeless Wisdom

Creating a home has been a theme throughout history. Many voices throughout history have given wisdom shared through life experiences about their ideas of home. This wisdom can encourage us when we are uninspired and uplift us when we lose sight of the big picture of our purpose. These timeless quotes remind us that a homemaker’s work is more than just chores. It’s about creating spaces of comfort, belonging, and a home filled with love.

I pray these quotes bring you motivation, comfort, and inspiration as you build your homes. Homemaking can sometimes feel isolating, or perhaps lonely, but I hope these words of wisdom can fill you with purpose as you spend your day doing important, invaluable work!

I hope this resource blesses you and your family this year!

"It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

“A woman’s happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor is the art of ruling it not as a queen, but as a wise wife and mother.” 

- Louisa May Alcott

“This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.” 

- Elisabeth Elliot

"Do it immediately, do it with prayer;
Do it reliantly, casting all care;
Do it with reverence, tracing His hand
Who placed it before thee with earnest command.
Stayed on Omnipotence, safe ‘neath His wing,
Leave all results, do the next thing."

- part of an Anonymous Poem entitled 'Do the Next Thing'

“A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.”

-Francis Schaeffer

“Living in a Christian home should facilitate honor and respect of a worthy God and encourage wholehearted delight and allegiance toward him. As you demonstrate that you love God with all your heart, it will be easier to find examples of God's faithfulness and ways to give Him the love and honor He deserves.” 

- Martha Peace

“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

“This magnetic pull toward beauty is an inclination most of us carry but too few of us acknowledge. Even if we are aware of it, we seldom honor it as something planted in us for a purpose.” 

- Christie Purifoy

“Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.” 

- Corrie Ten Boom

"And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up."

Galatians 6:9

“What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow.” 

-Martin Luther

“The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.”⁣

-J.R. Miller

" How could anyone dare to suggest or say that working at the huge task of making a home and carrying on through years and years of ups and downs is not one of the very few truly worthwhile ways to spend our energies and gifts in human life?" 

-Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

“Home is among the holiest of words. A true home is one of the most sacred of places. It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the world's perils and alarms. It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary retire to gather new strength for the battle and toils of tomorrow. It is the place where love learns its lessons, where life is schooled into discipline and strength, where character is molded. Out of the homes of a community comes the life of the community, as a river from the thousand springs that gush out on the hillsides.” 

-J.R. Miller