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
“Feminists are asking women and men not to buy into patriarchal systems that destroy them both. Feminism comes to bring both men… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for… — 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 seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a… — 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
If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the… — 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
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 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 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 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
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
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
