If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.

Schaeffer's husband Francis died in 1984 but Edith Schaeffer continued to be associated with the L'Abri organisation which Edith Schaeffer and her husband founded. In 1955 they began L'Abri a community that welcomed people who were seeking intellectually honest and culturally informed answers to questions about God and the meaning of life. It was there that Edith Schaeffer met Francis Schaeffer and they were married in 1935.

Her What is a Family? (1975) compared the extended family to a mobile. In 1955 they began L'Abri a community that welcomed people who were seeking intellectually honest and culturally informed answers to questions about God and the meaning of life. It won a Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian PubliEdith Schaefferrs Association (ECPA) in 1979.