Janet Erskine Stuart

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The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Love
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It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Who We Are
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It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Great Work
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Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Time
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You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Mushrooms
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We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Trying
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To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Inspirational
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Children with heaven in their eyes and an air of mystery about them, meditative and quiet, friends of God, friends of all, loved and loving and asking very little from the outer world, because they have more than enough within. They are classed as the dreamers, but they are really seers. They do not ask much and they do not need much beyond a reverent guardianship and to be let alone and allowed to grow; they will find this way for they are 'taught of God.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Children
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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.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Would Be
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Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Mean
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Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Rain
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I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Holiday
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Love gives a sense of rest.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Giving
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Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Greatness
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All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Spiritual
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Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: God
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We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Believe
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The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Inspirational
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In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Simple
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it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Age
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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.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Spiritual
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We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Common
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Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Dream
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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.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Dream
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The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Events
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There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Inspirational
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Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Democracy
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Life is a solitude.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
Collection: Solitude