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
The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“But one thing I do know: life and time are ghosted creatures for us all. They belong to us - and are… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Try saying this silently to everyone and everything you see for thirty days and see what happens to your own soul: I… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The Christmas season is a gift in itself. It releases us from the priorities of ordinary time and gives us the right… — 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
All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be… — 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
“The young hear memory in the voice of their elders and, delighted by these voices from the past or bored by them,… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“The service that the whole world needs from the elders is not the service of hours spent and time put in and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Life is a thing of many stages and moving parts. What we do with ease at one time of life we can… — 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
It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we… — 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
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
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
