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Janet Erskine Stuart
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“Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.”
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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.'”
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“In no order of things is adolescence a time of the simple life.”
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“... above all judge kindly, that is the heart of everything.”
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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 ... ”
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“All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.”
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“Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.”
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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.”
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“Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.”
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“... life is a solitude ...”
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“... it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.”
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“Do not wait for ideal circumstances; they will never come; nor for the best opportunities.”
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“Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?”
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“We can see so little, and He knows how to bring good out of everything.”
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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.”
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“Love gives a sense of rest.”
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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.”
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“The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.”
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“We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right.”
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“We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.”
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“To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.”
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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, English spiritual leader, poet
(1857 - 1914)