Janet Erskine Stuart, also known as Mother Janet Stuart, (11 November 1857, Cottesmore, Rutland, England – 21 October 1914, Roehampton, England) was a Roman Catholic nun and educator.
It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.
We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.
We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.
it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
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.
Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.
Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.
Love gives a sense of rest.
You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom
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.
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.
In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.
Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?