"It is precisely women’s experience of God that……" — Joan D. Chittister
"It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing mother. A world that does not preserve the planet, does not know God the creator. A world that does not honor the spirit of compassion, does not know God the spirit. God the lawgiver, God the judge, God the omnipotent being have consumed Western spirituality and, in the end, shriveled its heart."
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Joan D. Chittister
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93 Quotes by Joan D. Chittister
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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…
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The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting…
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We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value…
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Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human…
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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…
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A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in…
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Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name…
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To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give…
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Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better…
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It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and…
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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…
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In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
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We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately,…
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Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.
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Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?
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The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like,…
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I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light,…
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Nothing I have accomplished has given me more confidence than birthing my children at home naturally. I was so high…
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Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people…
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Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself…
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