And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

~ John 12:3

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. ~ Psalm 51:7

"Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." ~ Proverbs 6:8

"Thank God, O women for the quietude of your home, and that you are queen in it. Men come at eventide to the home; but all day long you are there, beautifying it, sanctifying it, adorning it, blessing it. ~ T. DeWitt Talmage

The homeliest tasks get beautiful if loving hands do them. ~ Louisa May Alcott

All true work is sacred; in all work, were it but true hand labour, there is something of divineness. ~ Carlyle

and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. ~ Ezekiel 47:12b

The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~ German Proverb

"And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine..." ~ Genesis 41:35-36

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

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

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