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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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Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our…
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It is our faith in Jesus Christ that sustains us at the crossroads of life's journey.
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The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in…
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Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.
— David Suzuki
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
— Mark Nepo
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It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A…
— R C Sproul
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Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the…
— Adriana Trigiani
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Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not…
— Richard J. Foster
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
— E. O. Wilson
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Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an…
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