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 Love Copy Share Image
Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the… — Joan D. Chittister Becoming Copy Share Image
The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside… — Joan D. Chittister Clear Copy Share Image
Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about… — Joan D. Chittister Get better Copy Share Image
“preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;” — Joan D. Chittister Exhibitionism 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
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
If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak… — Joan D. Chittister Ifs Copy Share Image
We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of… — Joan D. Chittister Becoming Copy Share Image
The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has… — Joan D. Chittister Achievement 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 Artist 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
faith isn't faith until it's all we have to hold on to and knowledge fails us. When we pray for faith, we… — Joan D. Chittister Darkness Copy Share Image
There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult… — Joan D. Chittister Acting 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 Beauty 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
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 Activity Copy Share Image
Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the… — Joan D. Chittister All things Copy Share Image
Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of… — Joan D. Chittister Agents 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
“The young hear memory in the voice of their elders and, delighted by these voices from the past or bored by them,… — Joan D. Chittister Aging 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
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
Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective.… — Joan D. Chittister Bears 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
When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are… — Joan D. Chittister All that remains 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 Death Copy Share Image
Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the… — Joan D. Chittister Boundaries Copy Share Image
We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization. — Joan D. Chittister Ethics Copy Share Image
No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it. — Joan D. Chittister Inspirational 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
We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our strength. — Joan D. Chittister Pray 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 Cold Copy Share Image
Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all. — Joan D. Chittister Faith Copy Share Image
“God's will for us is what's left over when we have done everything we can possibly do to get out of doing… — Joan D. Chittister God Will Copy Share Image
Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be… — Joan D. Chittister Blessing Copy Share Image
A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done. — Joan D. Chittister Consciously Copy Share Image
We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows… — Joan D. Chittister Eden Copy Share Image
