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Life Quotes by Joan D. Chittister

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Joan D. Chittister points out that we often rush and forget to think about what matters. She says noticing the sacred and beauty in everyday life keeps our world steady. She also warns that indifference can wear down our spirit and make us feel useless.

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Life is the ability to start over again.

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To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.

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Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.

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If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak…

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Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what…

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Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the…

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When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are…

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Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those…

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“But one thing I do know: life and time are ghosted creatures for us all. They belong to us - and are…

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I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not…

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A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.

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In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done…God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life…

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“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the “fresh life within” that…

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Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime -…

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There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult…

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“What happens to the spiritual life of a young girl who is made to understand, consciously or subconsciously, that she has no…

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The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has…

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Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end,…

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The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist…

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Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the…

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Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of…

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Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it…

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The liturgical year is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the…

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“Life is meant to form us in independence, usher us into an adulthood that begins in apprenticeship and ends in mastery, and…

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Life is a thing of many stages and moving parts. What we do with ease at one time of life we can…

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The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in…

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Religious life is not going to go away. It will take a different form. Why am I so sure it's not going…

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“We have made money our god and called it the good life. We have trained our children to go for jobs hat…

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“Whatever happens to the body, what toll age takes on the physical, the spirit does not grow old. In our dreams, in…

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“Women learn in such a system that, though they are usually tolerated in life and often loved, they are seldom respected for…

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“Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil…

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Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step…

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There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling…

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Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be…

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We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows…

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June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.

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Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.

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Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom…

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Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. Â… We are so busy making things happen…

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Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time.…

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A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.

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My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures…

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Humility is authenticity. It comes from the Latin word humus, meaning "earth." As the church has taught, we're made of dust, and unto dust…

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Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

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Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.

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“We don't change as we get older - we just get to be ore of what we've always been.”

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“What happens to the spiritual life of a young girl who is made to understand, consciously or subconsciously, that she has no place in…

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Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad…

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But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.

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“Whatever happens to the body, what toll age takes on the physical, the spirit does not grow old. In our dreams, in the way…

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Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can…

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