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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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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
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There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.
— Gautama Buddha
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He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art…
— John Bunyan
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Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to…
— Omar Khayyam
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Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.
— Laozi
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The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.
— Laozi
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Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
— Laozi
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When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses,…
— Laozi
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An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.
— Confucius
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Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold…
— Laozi
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Kunlun Mountain Over the earth the greenblue monster Kunlun who has seen all spring color and passion of men. Three million dragons…
— Mao Zedong
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This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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