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Joan D. Chittister has 93 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out…
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The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in…
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We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one…
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Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
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Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is…
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A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation…
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Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious…
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To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away…
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Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about…
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It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we…
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Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step…
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In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
— Lord Byron
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I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.
— Bernard Moitessier
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Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching…
— Janet Morris
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Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all,…
— Lloyd John Ogilvie
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Egypt is in the second day of angry street protests. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for calm. Because nothing calms…
— Conan O'Brien
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No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long; you're just sad, that's all. The mean…
— Audrey Hepburn
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I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.
— John C. McGinley
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My faith is the reason I run - it calms my heart and makes everything feel like a lift. My speed is…
— Allyson Felix
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Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us.
— Henri Matisse
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Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms…
— Holly Golightly
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The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into…
— Joseph Addison
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Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.
— Krista Tippett
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