Holly Pierlot > Quotes

“Once I started planning purchases, the satisfaction of actually buying what I truly wanted helped tame my desires for the stupid little things I used to waste my money on.”
― Holly Pierlot, A Mother's Rule of Life: How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul

“Implicit in sloth is the unwillingness to exert oneself in the performance of duty because of the sacrifice and effort required.”
― Holly Pierlot, A Mother's Rule of Life: How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul

“Since God lives in the heart, I was not to seek some Being way up in the sky . . . my journey to God was not outward, but inward! The only way to get closer to God was to become ordered enough inside to enable me to experience him within. When our emotions are running loose, and our minds are confused . . . and our imagination is working overtime, there's so much internal noise that we can't hear the still voice of God.

So many times over my years as a mother I had felt tired, overwhelmed, and worn out So often I felt I couldn't get any personal space to think, what with the continual onslaught of "Mummy! Mummy!" coming from the children, or the work that I hadn't finished staring me in the face. I needed quiet time alone.”
― Holly Pierlot

“We are all called to be saints, (although we are not all called to be canonized).”
― Holly Pierlot, A Mother's Rule of Life: How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul

“forward”
― Holly Pierlot, A Mother's Rule of Life: How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul

“we must realize that law precedes love. The laws that God imposes on us from the outside are meant to discipline us, to help our hearts grow into the laws of love which motivate us from within.”
― Holly Pierlot, A Mother's Rule of Life: How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul

“parenting is a call to form persons. We’re called to bring God to our children’s spirits, truth to their minds, health to their bodies, skill to their hands, beauty and creativity to their hearts, and in all this, virtue to their wills and sanctity to their souls.”
― Holly Pierlot, A Mother's Rule of Life: How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul