Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is… — 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
To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
“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
“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
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
But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
“Whatever happens to the body, what toll age takes on the physical, the spirit does not grow old. In our dreams, in the way… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share
