"Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close……" — Joan D. Chittister
"Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with it, we close our minds to our responsibility to ourselves - and to others - to keep on growing."
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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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