Ashes Quote by Joan D. Chittister

A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.

— Joan D. Chittister

To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.

— Joan D. Chittister

We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been.

— 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…

— Joan D. Chittister

Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. Â… We are so busy making things happen that we…

— Joan D. Chittister

My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures…

— Joan D. Chittister

Humility is authenticity. It comes from the Latin word humus, meaning "earth." As the church has taught, we're made of dust, and unto dust…

— Joan D. Chittister

Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

— Joan D. Chittister

Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.

— Joan D. Chittister

“We don't change as we get older - we just get to be ore of what we've always been.”

— Joan D. Chittister

“What happens to the spiritual life of a young girl who is made to understand, consciously or subconsciously, that she has no place in…

— Joan D. Chittister

Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad…

— Joan D. Chittister