Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need. — Joan D. Chittister 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 Copy Share Image
Lent is the time for trimming the soul and scrapping the sludge off a life turned slipshod. Lent is about taking stock… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to… — 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
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
