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
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
“Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil… — Joan D. Chittister Beginnings and endings 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
We each should have 2 pockets: in 1 the message, 'I am dust & ashes;' in the other, 'For me the universe… — Joan D. Chittister Ashes 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
Sometimes we exclude things in ourselves in order to be like everybody else around us-our ethnicity, our social backgrounds, our ideas. What… — Joan D. Chittister Backgrounds Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of God and knowlegde of self give birth to humility.” — Joan D. Chittister Faith 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
Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we… — Joan D. Chittister Air Copy Share Image
We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our strength. — Joan D. Chittister Praying Copy Share Image
If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining. — Joan D. Chittister Cancer 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
Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life. — Joan D. Chittister Celebrate Copy Share Image
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in… — Joan D. Chittister Culture Copy Share Image
I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many… — Joan D. Chittister Abortion Copy Share Image
I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not… — Joan D. Chittister Holiness 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
