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One Quotes by Joan D. Chittister
- We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the…
- A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the keepers…
- No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it.
- A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a sage appeared bearing…
- A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.
- The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
- Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a…
- Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and our efforts. Hospitality…
- Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.
- In community we work out our connectedness to God, to one another and to ourselves...In human relationships I learn that theory is no substitute for…
- Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous,"…
- There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life,…
- Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.
- To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.
- Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.
- Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.
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