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 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
Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what… — Joan D. Chittister Awareness 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 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 Copy Share Image
“preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;” — Joan D. Chittister Exhibitionism Copy Share Image
Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long. — Joan D. Chittister Cry 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
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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done…God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life… — 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
“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
For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“The young hear memory in the voice of their elders and, delighted by these voices from the past or bored by them,… — Joan D. Chittister Aging Copy Share Image
We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and… — Joan D. Chittister Barriers 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
"Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the… — Joan D. Chittister Desert Copy Share Image
Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here. — Joan D. Chittister Awareness 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 Clock Copy Share Image
We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our strength. — Joan D. Chittister Pray Copy Share Image
June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life. — Joan D. Chittister Cold Copy Share Image
Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all. — Joan D. Chittister Faith Copy Share Image
Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty. — Joan D. Chittister Beauty Copy Share Image
We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization. — Joan D. Chittister Ethics 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
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
“We don't change as we get older - we just get to be ore of what we've always been.” — Joan D. Chittister Change Copy Share Image
Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression. — Joan D. Chittister Darkness 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
