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Joan D Chittister Inspirational Quotes (68)

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There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us.
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We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is
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In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
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In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and worth of each living creature. Too bad we forget so often.
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Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.
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The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
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Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.
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In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done....God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life spent serving God must be a life spent giving to others what we have been given.
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We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.
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Try saying this silently to everyone and everything you see for thirty days and see what happens to your own soul: I wish you happiness now and whatever will bring happiness to you in the future.
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Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.
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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.
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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 us out of touch with life too much free time and dull the edge of the soul. We need sometimes to come very near the bone so tha we can taste the marrow of life, rather than its superfluities.
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Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it
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I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.
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Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.
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A life of value is not a series of great things well done it is a series of small things consciously done.
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It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.
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Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.
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We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been.
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Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.
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prayer can be an easy substitute for real spirituality. It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it is certainly possible to pray without having a spirituality at all. How do you know? 'Am I becoming kinder?' is a good place to start.
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Religion is pointing toward the moon
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The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.
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