All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be… — Joan D. Chittister Ability 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 Barriers Copy Share Image
Religious life is not going to go away. It will take a different form. Why am I so sure it's not going… — Joan D. Chittister Artistic Copy Share Image
Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We… — Joan D. Chittister Acid Copy Share Image
The God who made us dust knows we're dust. We don't have to feel like perpetual failures because we aren't more than… — Joan D. Chittister Authenticity Copy Share Image
Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it — Joan D. Chittister Heart Copy Share Image
Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression. — Joan D. Chittister Darkness Copy Share Image
Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of… — Joan D. Chittister Black 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 Accord Copy Share Image
Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty. — Joan D. Chittister Beauty Copy Share Image
“Where will Christian feminists go for spiritual nourishment if the church itself fails to reflect the feminism of Jesus? If tradition becomes… — Joan D. Chittister Feminism Copy Share Image
“We have made money our god and called it the good life. We have trained our children to go for jobs hat… — Joan D. Chittister Food stamps Copy Share Image
The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible. — Joan D. Chittister Bearable 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 Awareness Copy Share Image
In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done....God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life… — Joan D. Chittister Creating Copy Share Image
"Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the… — Joan D. Chittister Desert Copy Share Image
Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom… — Joan D. Chittister Birthday 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 Compass Copy Share Image
Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end,… — Joan D. Chittister Broken Copy Share Image
“Women learn in such a system that, though they are usually tolerated in life and often loved, they are seldom respected for… — Joan D. Chittister Life Copy Share Image
For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really… — Joan D. Chittister Century Copy Share Image
Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance,… — Joan D. Chittister Challenges Copy Share Image
An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability. — Joan D. Chittister Accountability Copy Share Image
The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not… — Joan D. Chittister Charity Copy Share Image
In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the… — Joan D. Chittister Animal Copy Share Image
