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
Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage. — Joan D. Chittister Catalyst Copy Share Image
“But one thing I do know: life and time are ghosted creatures for us all. They belong to us - and are… — Joan D. Chittister Life Copy Share Image
It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out… — Joan D. Chittister Appreciation 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
“preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;” — Joan D. Chittister Success Copy Share Image
It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try. — Joan D. Chittister Jobs Copy Share Image
Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others. — Joan D. Chittister Commitment Copy Share Image
Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people… — Joan D. Chittister Asking Copy Share Image
I have to be honest with you, it never occurred to me, as years went by, that my country would look like… — Joan D. Chittister Being honest Copy Share Image
We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is — Joan D. Chittister Anti abortion 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
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
The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in… — Joan D. Chittister Creating Copy Share Image
We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that… — Joan D. Chittister Bread 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
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
It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. — Joan D. Chittister Beauty 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
When I get on the internet and hide behind a false identity, and then allow that hiding to free me from the… — Joan D. Chittister Decency Copy Share Image
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
“The symbolic evidence of women’s invisibility in the human race is most clear perhaps in her suppression, her camouflage, her negation even… — Joan D. Chittister Human race Copy Share Image
The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the… — Joan D. Chittister Authority Copy Share Image
