In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the… — Joan D. Chittister Animal Copy Share Image
"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind."… — Joan D. Chittister Dream Copy Share Image
Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom… — Joan D. Chittister Birthday Copy Share Image
Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is… — Joan D. Chittister Encouragement Copy Share Image
If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the kings acts precipitously and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning Â… Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty,… — Joan D. Chittister Age Copy Share Image
Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for… — Joan D. Chittister Harvest Copy Share Image
Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does… — Joan D. Chittister Ability Copy Share Image
Internet has contributed to certainly a new kind of communication among us - not all of it good; a lot of it,… — Joan D. Chittister Communication Copy Share Image
“Life is meant to form us in independence, usher us into an adulthood that begins in apprenticeship and ends in mastery, and… — Joan D. Chittister Adulthood Copy Share Image
The human race sees with one eye, the male eye; hears with one ear, the male ear; and thinks with one half… — Joan D. Chittister Decision Copy Share Image
Life is a thing of many stages and moving parts. What we do with ease at one time of life we can… — Joan D. Chittister 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
Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it.… — Joan D. Chittister 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
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
Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own… — Joan D. Chittister Ability Copy Share Image
Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance,… — Joan D. Chittister Challenges Copy Share Image
prayer can be an easy substitute for real spirituality. It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“We have watched our educational system begin to fray because we have taken weapons for granted and preferred a strong military to… — Joan D. Chittister Education Copy Share Image
It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we… — Joan D. Chittister Being yourself Copy Share Image
To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom… — Joan D. Chittister Exercise Copy Share Image
My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
We have learned that the things we amassed to prove to ourselves how valuable, how important, how successful we were, didn't prove… — Joan D. Chittister Facts Copy Share Image
Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that… — Joan D. Chittister Arrogance 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 Copy Share Image
Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not… — Joan D. Chittister Charity Copy Share Image
When I know and accept myself-all my strengths and all my limitations- I am immediately respectful of everyone else because I know… — Joan D. Chittister Acceptance Copy Share Image
Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step… — Joan D. Chittister Compass Copy Share Image
There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling… — Joan D. Chittister Art of life Copy Share Image
Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know… — Joan D. Chittister 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 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
