“We don't change as we get older - we just get to be ore of what we've always been.” — Joan D. Chittister Change Copy Share Image
But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become. — Joan D. Chittister Aging Copy Share Image
Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need. — Joan D. Chittister Desire 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 Change Copy Share Image
Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it — Joan D. Chittister Heart 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 Cry Copy Share Image
To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here. — Joan D. Chittister Awareness 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… — Joan D. Chittister Age 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 Becoming Copy Share Image
"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind."… — Joan D. Chittister Dream Copy Share Image
If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the kings acts precipitously and… — Joan D. Chittister Ifs 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
My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and… — Joan D. Chittister Creatures 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 Acid Copy Share Image
When I know and accept myself-all my strengths and all my limitations- I am immediately respectful of everyone else because I know… — Joan D. Chittister Acceptance 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 Age 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 Becoming Copy Share Image
It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we… — Joan D. Chittister Being yourself Copy Share Image
Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that… — Joan D. Chittister Arrogance 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… — Joan D. Chittister Clear Copy Share Image
Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and… — Joan D. Chittister Barriers Copy Share Image
The God who made us dust knows we're dust. We don't have to feel like perpetual failures because we aren't more than… — Joan D. Chittister Authenticity 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 Dreams 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
Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be… — Joan D. Chittister Ability 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 Compassion 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 Community 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 Life 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… — Joan D. Chittister Authenticity Copy Share Image
It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try. — Joan D. Chittister Jobs Copy Share Image
Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one. — Joan D. Chittister Action Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of God and knowlegde of self give birth to humility.” — Joan D. Chittister Faith Copy Share Image
We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is — Joan D. Chittister Anti abortion Copy Share Image
To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues. — Joan D. Chittister Character Copy Share Image
Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage. — Joan D. Chittister Catalyst 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
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
