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> [“Benedictine spirituality, after all, is life lived to the hilt. It is a life of concentration on life's ordinary dimensions. It is an attempt to do the ordinary things of life extraordinarily well.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-chittister/benedictine-spirituality-after-all-is-life-lived-to-the-hilt-it-is-a/)

Joan Chittister

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## More by Joan Chittister

> [“Of all the things we share, the most central is not in the liturgical or theological or canonical dimensions of the religion. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-chittister/of-all-the-things-we-share-the-most-central-is-not-in-the-liturgical/)

Joan Chittister

> [“Benedictine spirituality, after all, is life lived to the hilt. It is a life of concentration on life's ordinary dimensions. It is an attempt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-chittister/benedictine-spirituality-after-all-is-life-lived-to-the-hilt-it-is-a/)

Joan Chittister

> [“Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-chittister/everywhere-i-looked-hope-existed-but-only-as-some-kind-of-green-shoot/)

Joan Chittister

> [“I began to trust the questions themselves to lead me beyond answers to understanding, beyond practice to faith”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-chittister/i-began-to-trust-the-questions-themselves-to-lead-me-beyond-answers/)

Joan Chittister

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