Janet Erskine Stuart
Janet Erskine Stuart
Janet Erskine Stuart, also known as Mother Janet Stuart,was a Roman Catholic nun and educator...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
hard outlived sort stick
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.
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.
great-work
It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.
holiday giving wish
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.
spiritual accepted spiritual-gifts
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
positive aim
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
who-we-are educate
It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.
mushrooms tree grows
You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom
rain two vines
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 ...
motivational firsts sticks
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.
time teaching learning
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
trying obligation
We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.
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.
simple order simple-life
In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.