Joan D. Chittister

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• Life is the ability to start over again. Ability
• Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it ends. Life is… Autumn
• Imagination begins when it' s raining too hard to go out and play and you become really absorbed in something you would never have thought… Absorbed
• Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do,… Along
• Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and our efforts. Hospitality… Around One
• All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be exposed. We posture… Ability
• Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one. Action
• We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does… Bread
• Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression. Bouts
• Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get… Broken
• My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures indeed. Creatures
• Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the… Afternoon
• To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here. Awareness
• Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does with what you… Abilities
• When I know and accept myself-all my strengths and all my limitations- I am immediately respectful of everyone else because I know they have something… Accept
• It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. Beauty
• Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it Find
• Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock.… Assuming
• In community we work out our connectedness to God, to one another and to ourselves...In human relationships I learn that theory is no substitute for… Another Thing
• Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday. Boundaries
• We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is Broader
• Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can… Ability
• Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need. Confuse
• Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous,"… Able
• Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash in great feeling… Awash

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