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
“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the “fresh life within” that… — Joan D. Chittister Life Copy Share Image
Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those… — Joan D. Chittister Ashes Copy Share Image
Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime -… — Joan D. Chittister Art of life Copy Share Image
Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people… — Joan D. Chittister Hospitality 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
Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that.… — Joan D. Chittister Ends 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
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
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
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
“The service that the whole world needs from the elders is not the service of hours spent and time put in and… — Joan D. Chittister Buddhism Copy Share Image
Happiness does not come quickly. It is not conferred by any single event, however exciting or comforting or satisfying the event may… — Joan D. Chittister Allure Copy Share Image
Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it… — Joan D. Chittister Autumn Copy Share Image
The liturgical year is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the… — Joan D. Chittister Christ 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 21st century 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
“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
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation… — Joan D. Chittister Bifurcation 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with… — Joan D. Chittister Bother Copy Share Image
We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the… — Joan D. Chittister Body 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
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
There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying… — Joan D. Chittister Amount Copy Share Image
Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic… — Joan D. Chittister Control ourselves Copy Share Image
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
Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash… — Joan D. Chittister Balance 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
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 Arrogant Copy Share Image
