Best Joan D. Chittister Quotations
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Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad that…
Age
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Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait…
Harvest
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Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out,…
Air
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Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning Â… Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty, what it has…
Age
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Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of…
Brings
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Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. Â… We are so busy making things happen that we have…
Achievement
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We have learned that the things we amassed to prove to ourselves how valuable, how important, how successful we were, didn't prove it at all.…
All
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Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.
Creativity
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I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating…
Achievement
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Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an opening of the…
All
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Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
All
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Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.
Bring
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Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than…
Acceptance
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Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.
All
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Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.
Acceptance
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Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.
Catalyst
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The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not…
Been
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Sometimes we exclude things in ourselves in order to be like everybody else around us-our ethnicity, our social backgrounds, our ideas. What kind of world…
Allow
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