Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one. — Joan D. Chittister Action Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of God and knowlegde of self give birth to humility.” — Joan D. Chittister Faith Copy Share Image
We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been. — Joan D. Chittister Change Copy Share Image
To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here. — Joan D. Chittister Awareness 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 Clock Copy Share Image
The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the… — 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 Love Copy Share Image
Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe. — Joan D. Chittister Awe Copy Share Image
Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need. — Joan D. Chittister Desire 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 Ashes Copy Share Image
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 Hospitality Copy Share Image
Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime -… — Joan D. Chittister Art of life Copy Share Image
Humility is authenticity. It comes from the Latin word humus, meaning "earth." As the church has taught, we're made of dust, and… — Joan D. Chittister Authenticity Copy Share Image
Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult… — Joan D. Chittister Acting Copy Share Image
To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away… — Joan D. Chittister Beauty Copy Share Image
“What happens to the spiritual life of a young girl who is made to understand, consciously or subconsciously, that she has no… — Joan D. Chittister Life Copy Share Image
Happiness does not come quickly. It is not conferred by any single event, however exciting or comforting or satisfying the event may… — Joan D. Chittister Allure Copy Share Image
Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it… — Joan D. Chittister Autumn Copy Share Image
The liturgical year is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the… — Joan D. Chittister Christ Copy Share Image
What is the spirituality we need for the 21st century? We face a choice: to retire from this fray into some marshmallow… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
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 Balance Copy Share Image
Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but… — Joan D. Chittister Arrogant Copy Share Image
The human race sees with one eye, the male eye; hears with one ear, the male ear; and thinks with one half… — Joan D. Chittister Decision 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 Compassion 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 Ability Copy Share Image
Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate. — Joan D. Chittister Creativity Copy Share Image
But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become. — Joan D. Chittister Aging 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
If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining. — Joan D. Chittister Cancer Copy Share Image
We each should have 2 pockets: in 1 the message, 'I am dust & ashes;' in the other, 'For me the universe… — Joan D. Chittister Ashes Copy Share Image
An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability. — Joan D. Chittister Accountability Copy Share Image
Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others. — Joan D. Chittister Commitment Copy Share Image
“We don't change as we get older - we just get to be ore of what we've always been.” — Joan D. Chittister Change Copy Share Image
It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. — Joan D. Chittister Beauty Copy Share Image
Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression. — Joan D. Chittister Darkness Copy Share Image
I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not… — Joan D. Chittister Holiness Copy Share Image
