Janet Erskine Stuart Quotes

#1. It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

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#2. There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. It is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Life is a solitude ...

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#9. Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.

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#10. It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

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#11. We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.

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#12. You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.

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#13. Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.

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#14. We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right.

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#15. 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.

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#16. The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.

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#17. To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

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#18. Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.

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#19. We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.

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#20. All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

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#21. Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

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#22. Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

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#23. 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 ...

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#24. In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

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#25. 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.

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#26. Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

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#27. Love gives a sense of rest.

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