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When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life.
— Joan D. Chittister
In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
— Joan D. Chittister
Was greed that broke Wall Street, not the lack of financial algorithms.
— Joan D. Chittister
Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.
— Joan D. Chittister
June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.
— Joan D. Chittister
Hospitality is simply love on the loose.
— Joan D. Chittister
life is the vessel we have been given in order to find out what life is really meant to be about.
— Joan D. Chittister
To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.
— Joan D. Chittister
Holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.
— Joan D. Chittister
Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.
— Joan D. Chittister
Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.
— Joan D. Chittister
Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.
— Joan D. Chittister
Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it
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Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.
— Joan D. Chittister
An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.
— Joan D. Chittister
I began to trust the questions themselves to lead me beyond answers to understanding, beyond practice to faith
— Joan D. Chittister
Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship ... It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.
— Joan D. Chittister
We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.
— Joan D. Chittister
Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.
— Joan D. Chittister
Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.
— Joan D. Chittister
We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.
— Joan D. Chittister
Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us.
— Joan D. Chittister
Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.
— Joan D. Chittister
The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it counts!
— Joan D. Chittister
Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth.
— Joan D. Chittister
If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.
— Joan D. Chittister
But one thing I do know: life and time are ghosted creatures for us all. They belong to us - and are not ours at the same time.
— Joan D. Chittister
Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves ... Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.
— Joan D. Chittister
I learned that the Italians are right. It isn't what happens to us that counts. It's what we do with what happens to us that makes all the difference
— Joan D. Chittister
Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.
— Joan D. Chittister
Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.
— Joan D. Chittister
Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.
— Joan D. Chittister
It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.
— Joan D. Chittister
Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.
— Joan D. Chittister
To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God.
— Joan D. Chittister
If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.
— Joan D. Chittister
Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.
— 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
Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need.
— Joan D. Chittister
Life is the ability to start over again.
— Joan D. Chittister
Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe.
— Joan D. Chittister
We each should have 2 pockets: in 1 the message, 'I am dust & ashes;' in the other, 'For me the universe was made.'
— Joan D. Chittister
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.
— Joan D. Chittister
But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.
— 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
Religion is pointing toward the moon
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It is what we do routinely, not what we do rarely, that delineates the character of a person.
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for beginners. After that, you can set out for
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To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.
— Joan D. Chittister
It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.
— Joan D. Chittister
We fail to move beyond what is safe, we abandon our dreams in favor of what is sure rather than strive for what is best for us.
— Joan D. Chittister
Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.
— Joan D. Chittister
We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our strength. — Joan D. Chittister
we try so hard to avoid the rest of the year: how do we deal with the God of darkness as well as the Giver of light?
— Joan D. Chittister
We should employ our passions in the service of life," Sir Richard Steele wrote, "not spend life in the service of our passions.
— Joan D. Chittister
Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.
— Joan D. Chittister
The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
— Joan D. Chittister
Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.
— 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
A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.
— Joan D. Chittister
preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;
— Joan D. Chittister
Prayer restores the soul that is dry and dulled by years of trying to create a world that never completely comes.
— Joan D. Chittister
No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it.
— Joan D. Chittister
Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.
— Joan D. Chittister
