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 Birthing 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
In community we work out our connectedness to God, to one another and to ourselves...In human relationships I learn that theory is… — Joan D. Chittister Community 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
“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 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
Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be… — Joan D. Chittister Ability 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 Being the best Copy Share Image
Internet has contributed to certainly a new kind of communication among us - not all of it good; a lot of it,… — Joan D. Chittister Communication 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
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
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
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 Consistent Copy Share Image
Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe. — Joan D. Chittister Awe Copy Share Image
It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own… — Joan D. Chittister Call me Copy Share Image
Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is… — Joan D. Chittister Encouragement Copy Share Image
“Life is meant to form us in independence, usher us into an adulthood that begins in apprenticeship and ends in mastery, and… — Joan D. Chittister Freedom Copy Share Image
Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time.… — Joan D. Chittister Afternoon Copy Share Image
A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a… — Joan D. Chittister Achievement Copy Share Image
The Christmas season is a gift in itself. It releases us from the priorities of ordinary time and gives us the right… — Joan D. Chittister And love Copy Share Image
“Feminists are asking women and men not to buy into patriarchal systems that destroy them both. Feminism comes to bring both men… — Joan D. Chittister Feminism Copy Share Image
Try saying this silently to everyone and everything you see for thirty days and see what happens to your own soul: I… — Joan D. Chittister Happens Copy Share Image
Life is a thing of many stages and moving parts. What we do with ease at one time of life we can… — Joan D. Chittister Different 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
