Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance,… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Peace comes from living a measured life. Peace comes from attending to every part of my world in a sacramental way. My… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Lent is the time for trimming the soul and scrapping the sludge off a life turned slipshod. Lent is about taking stock… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“Feminists are asking women and men not to buy into patriarchal systems that destroy them both. Feminism comes to bring both men… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning Â… Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty,… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. Â… We are so busy making things happen that we… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
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… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
“We don't change as we get older - we just get to be ore of what we've always been.” — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
“What happens to the spiritual life of a young girl who is made to understand, consciously or subconsciously, that she has no place in… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
“Whatever happens to the body, what toll age takes on the physical, the spirit does not grow old. In our dreams, in the way… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
