Homemaking

30 Encouraging Homemaker Quotes

Here are 30 encouraging homemaker quotes to uplift and celebrate all the beauty that comes with creating a home.

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.

Quotes to Encourage your Homemaker Heart

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 inspiring homemaker 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 let these words of wisdom fill you with purpose as you spend your day doing important, invaluable work!

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

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
– Louisa May Alcott

"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

“The home is the ultimate career.
All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.”
– C.S. Lewis

“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

“I believe that a godly home is a foretaste of heaven. Our homes, imperfect as they are, must be a haven from the chaos outside. They should be a reflection of our eternal home, where troubled souls find peace, weary hearts find rest, hungry bodies find refreshment, lonely pilgrims find communion, and wounded spirits find compassion.”
– Jani Ortlund

“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

“By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.”
Proverbs 24:3-4

"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'

“And then she realized she was replaceable in every area of her life except her home. So she invested her time, her energy, and her heart wisely.”
– Jillian Benfield

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

- Francis Schaeffer

“She looks well to the ways of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.”
Proverbs 31:27

“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

“No matter what’s happening in the world, have your tea, make your list, plan your food preparation, read to your children, wash the clothes, do something creative for everyone and be a light for your home.”
– Lydia Sherman

“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 way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all speak loudly about what you believe. The beauty of thy peace shines forth in an ordered life. A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul.”
– Elisabeth Elliot⁣

“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

“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

“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

“Few things we can do in this world are so well worth doing as the making of a beautiful and happy home. He who does this builds a sanctuary for God and opens a fountain of blessing for men.⁣”
– J.R. Miller

"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

“But what if beauty is one of the greatest gifts I give my neighbors and my guests? What if my own choices give others the permission they need to forgo the plastic jug, to light the special candle, to sit quietly in the afternoon with milky tea in a bone china cup? I believe beauty reflects the truth about who God is and what this world is all about. What could be more important than cultivating beauty in little ways and large, however I am able?”
– Christie Purifoy

“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

“I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’.”
– Edith Schaeffer (The Hidden Art of Homemaking)

“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

“Purpose is found in those quiet moments when no one but God sees the work of your hands.”
– Darlene Schacht

" 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

“You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, and training them up in God’s fear, and minding the house, and making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.”
– Charles Spurgeon⁣

“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

“Wash the plate not because it is dirty nor because you are told to wash it, but because you love the person who will use it next.”
– Mother Teresa

In a world that often overlooks the quiet work of home, old fashioned homemaking reminds us that beauty is found in the small things. From folding laundry to lighting a candle at dinner, these simple acts shape the heart of the home.

Homemaking quotes about family and women speak to the strength and grace behind each task, honoring the timeless rhythm of homemaking. I pray these bring you encouragement in your calling!