To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what… — 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
Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling… — 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 Copy Share Image
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
Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the “fresh life within” that… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done…God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life… — Joan D. Chittister 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 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 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 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
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 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
Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of… — Joan D. Chittister 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 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 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
“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 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 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
“We have made money our god and called it the good life. We have trained our children to go for jobs hat… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“Whatever happens to the body, what toll age takes on the physical, the spirit does not grow old. In our dreams, in… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“Women learn in such a system that, though they are usually tolerated in life and often loved, they are seldom respected for… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil… — 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
Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom… — 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
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
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 Image
To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here. — Joan D. Chittister 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 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 who speaks… — 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 that we… — 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 insufferable creatures… — Joan D. Chittister 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 unto dust… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
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 Image
Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long. — Joan D. Chittister 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 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 place in… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
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 Image
