Inspirational Quotes

The primary focus of homeschooling should be on cultivating hearts for the Lord.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

Organic education is natural, wholesome, and fundamental.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

There is freedom in homeschooling.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

The times I am most frustrated in homeschooling is when I become focused more on my plans than His plans. I must spend more time daily looking up for his divine direction than I do looking down at my lesson plans.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

Goodbye worry, fear, doubt, and guilt. Hello grace.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

Christ is the core of my child's curriculum.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

Proverbs 16:3 Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans.A great reminder when planning out the school year.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

[Put] on your oxygen mask first. We cannot give our children something we don't have ourselves. I encourage you to make a commitment to having a quiet time with God every day. This may involve some sacrifices, such as waking up ten minutes earlier, turning off the morning news for a few minutes, or finding time alone, but I can promise that the results will be worth it.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

Only God can break through the variegated walls of skin to capture the one and only hue of the heart. One Blood.

~ Katelyne Parker

I pray moms will use ... [my] book[s] as a reference to arm themselves with God's grace and His Word to break away from the enemy's bondage and begin to experience peace and freedom in their homeschool journeys right away.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

How do I find joy in my homeschool journey?The answer is quite simple. I accept lots of God's grace. Grace to make mistakes. Grace to take a nap when I am exhausted. Grace to not feel guilty. Without His abundant provision of grace, I would be depleted, discouraged, and dissatisfied. Instead, I place all my trust in His direction and I embrace my calling as a homeschool mom. His grace has set me free from worry, fear, doubt, and guilt and I am overflowing with joy. Praise God!

~ Tamara L. Chilver

The Truth: Doing it all is a misconception the enemy wants mothers to believe. Learn how to fully embrace the beauty of each season of your life. It is a gift from God. God’s Word: Colossians 3:23-24-'Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.' Take a deep breath busy mom. You are doing a great job!

~ Tamara L. Chilver

Every mom is busy, whether you have one child or more than one. You just learn how to manage your time differently as your family grows.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

For those of you who think that I have my life altogether, I definitely do not. Every season brings new challenges. For example, since I had my fifth child, I am notoriously 5-10 minutes late everywhere no matter how hard I try to be on time. I would like to say that I am fashionably late, but that isn't the truth either. Running in a mad dash in a parking lot (all holding hands of course) to make it somewhere 5 minutes late (instead of 6 minutes cause that makes a big difference) while one child is missing shoes and my hair is going in every direction. Yep, that is my family.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

... parents naturally want their children to excel in every area of academics and extra-curricular activities, but the reality is- God made each child differently for His purpose. He never intended for our children to excel in everything.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

Relax. Cultivate your children's capabilities. Maximize their strengths. Do not handicap their unique skills by spending too much time on making them average in everything. Help them create their own style, and appreciate your children for who God created them to be.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

curriculum companies provide more work than is needed. I never finished the complete curriculum when I taught in a classroom or at home. If your race is with your curriculum, learn to pick and choose what to use, and please do not attempt to cover it all or your race will be ongoing and you will be exhausted. Even races require pit stops to refuel.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

... the enemy will do anything to rob my joy of homeschooling and parenting. He wanted me to live in bondage and feel guilty and like I was never doing enough to have me miss the real joy of just being home with my children.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

I LOVE homeschooling and want others who have been led to do it to love it, too.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

I want home educators to look beyond the lesson plans, curriculum, and grades to see the abundant blessings. My desire is for parents to enjoy the journey rather than focus on the destination.When you begin to embrace the journey- TRULY embrace the journey- the joy of homeschooling will be absolutely A.MA.ZING. You will begin to see the much larger picture and God's work in your homeschool day more than you ever have before.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

[Home educator] take time during the holidays to catch your breath and enjoy homeschooling in a new, refreshing way (and to learn the value of bookmarks like I did.☺)

~ Tamara L. Chilver

[Home educator] sometimes teaching and parenting is tough stuff. That is the reality of the calling. I hope ... [do] not quit or give up hope but keep moving forward on the path where God guides you.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

God will help you do it if you trust and lean on Him for guidance and strength.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

By fulfilling our divinely appointed jobs as parents, we can be God's tools that define and refine our children as they are sculpted into the individuals that He wants them to be.

~ Tamara L. Chilver

Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes

~ Matthew Henry

The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.

~ John Calvin

When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him

~ John Calvin

Freedom, wholeness, and true success can only be found when you are living a praying life. That means walking so close to God that He can keep you away from danger and guide you where you need to go

~ Stormie Omartian

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.

~ Oswald Chambers

Girls...only lift the veil over your body to the spouse who is worthy to see the glory of that unveiled mystery.

~ Jason Evert

The Son of Man saves souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our United States State religion has become Secular Humanism which has no separation from the State.

~ James C. Campbell

Whatever God does today will be as significant as the parting of the Red Sea.

~ Rebecca Vandemark

Experiential truth comes by obedience.

~ Jane Bulos

To shrink back from all that can be called Nature into negative spirituality is as if we ran away from horses instead of learning to ride. There is in our present pilgrim condition plenty of room (more room than most of us like) for abstinence and renunciation and mortifying our natural desires. But behind all asceticism the thought should be, ‘Who will trust us with the true wealth if we cannot be trusted even with the wealth that perishes?’ Who will trust me with a spiritual body if I cannot control even an earthly body? These small and perishable bodies we now have were given to us as ponies are given to schoolboys. We must learn to manage: not that we may some day be free of horses altogether but that some day we may ride bare-back, confident and rejoicing, those greater mounts, those winged, shining and world- shaking horses which perhaps even now expect us with impatience, pawing and snorting in the King’s stables. Not that the gallop would be of any value unless it were a gallop with the King; but how else— since He has retained His own charger—should we accompany Him?

~ C.s. Lewis

Neither boost about your own strength nor dignity but the sacred grace of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must stay connected to vine to keep bearing fruits.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May you grace for good deeds.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must depend on God’s grace for every good deed.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita