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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is — 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
I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many… — 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
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
