Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the kings acts precipitously and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. Â… We are so busy making things happen… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Religious life is not going to go away. It will take a different form. Why am I so sure it's not going… — 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
