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
To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here. — Joan D. Chittister Awareness 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
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
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 Achievement 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become. — Joan D. Chittister Aging 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
