Janet Erskine Stuart
Janet Erskine Stuart
Janet Erskine Stuart, also known as Mother Janet Stuart,was a Roman Catholic nun and educator...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Janet Erskine Stuart quotes about
greatness simplicity essentials
Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.
great-work
It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.
great hard interest outlived sort stick
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
dream true-life world
This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.
inspirational excellent ought
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
common common-things sanctify
We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.
believe long trust-in-god
We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right.
events action scene
The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.
solitude life-is
... life is a solitude ...
saws would-be ifs
What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.
simple order simple-life
In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.
democracy ifs exclusive
Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?
age middle interest
it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
spiritual dark names
Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.