But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become. — Joan D. Chittister 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 Copy Share Image
Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that… — Joan D. Chittister 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 Copy Share Image
I have to be honest with you, it never occurred to me, as years went by, that my country would look like… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
What is the spirituality we need for the 21st century? We face a choice: to retire from this fray into some marshmallow… — 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… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The human race sees with one eye, the male eye; hears with one ear, the male ear; and thinks with one half… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people… — Joan D. Chittister 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 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 Copy Share Image
Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Don't worry about wearing the sign; be the sign. You don't have to wear a sandwich board saying, "I am religious and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Peace comes from living a measured life. Peace comes from attending to every part of my world in a sacramental way. My… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Sometimes we exclude things in ourselves in order to be like everybody else around us-our ethnicity, our social backgrounds, our ideas. What… — 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
