Janet Erskine Stuart

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

— Janet Erskine Stuart

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

— Janet Erskine Stuart

The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred…

— Janet Erskine Stuart

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

— Janet Erskine Stuart

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

— Janet Erskine Stuart

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a…

— Janet Erskine Stuart

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

Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.

— Janet Erskine Stuart

Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name…

— Janet Erskine Stuart

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

— Janet Erskine Stuart

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which…

— Janet Erskine Stuart

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

— Janet Erskine Stuart

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

— Janet Erskine Stuart

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

— Janet Erskine Stuart

What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things…

— Janet Erskine Stuart

Children with heaven in their eyes and an air of mystery about them, meditative and quiet, friends of God, friends of all,…

— Janet Erskine Stuart

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

— Janet Erskine Stuart

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the…

— Janet Erskine Stuart

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

— Janet Erskine Stuart

“In no order of things is adolescence the time of simple life.”

— Janet Erskine Stuart

I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God…

— Janet Erskine Stuart

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

— Janet Erskine Stuart

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

— Janet Erskine Stuart

Life is a solitude.

— Janet Erskine Stuart

Love gives a sense of rest.

— Janet Erskine Stuart