In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done…God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life spent serving God must be a life spent giving to others what we have been given. — 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
