A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be… — Joan D. Chittister Blessing Copy Share Image
“God's will for us is what's left over when we have done everything we can possibly do to get out of doing… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic… — Joan D. Chittister Consciousness Copy Share Image
We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows… — Joan D. Chittister Eden Copy Share Image
Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all. — Joan D. Chittister Faith 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 Cold Copy Share Image
We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our strength. — Joan D. Chittister Pray Copy Share Image
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation… — 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 secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has… — Joan D. Chittister Achievement Copy Share Image
We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
faith isn't faith until it's all we have to hold on to and knowledge fails us. When we pray for faith, we… — Joan D. Chittister Darkness Copy Share Image
Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end,… — 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 Artist Copy Share Image
Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“Life is meant to form us in independence, usher us into an adulthood that begins in apprenticeship and ends in mastery, and… — Joan D. Chittister Adulthood Copy Share Image
Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it.… — 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
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 Appreciation Copy Share Image
Internet has contributed to certainly a new kind of communication among us - not all of it good; a lot of it,… — Joan D. Chittister Communication Copy Share Image
The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in… — Joan D. Chittister Creating Copy Share Image
Sometimes we exclude things in ourselves in order to be like everybody else around us-our ethnicity, our social backgrounds, our ideas. What… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty. — Joan D. Chittister Beauty Copy Share Image
No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it. — Joan D. Chittister Inspirational Copy Share Image
We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization. — Joan D. Chittister Ethics 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 Achievement Copy Share Image
We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the… — Joan D. Chittister Body Copy Share Image
Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be… — Joan D. Chittister Ability 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
There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying… — 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
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 Ability Copy Share Image
“We have watched our educational system begin to fray because we have taken weapons for granted and preferred a strong military to… — Joan D. Chittister Education Copy Share Image
prayer can be an easy substitute for real spirituality. It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it… — 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 Challenges Copy Share Image
Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own… — Joan D. Chittister Ability 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
Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
