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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

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We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our strength.
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We have learned that the things we amassed to prove to ourselves how valuable, how important, how successful we were, didn't prove it at all. In fact, they have very little to do with it. It's what's inside of us, not what's outside of us that counts.
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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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To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.
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Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of proof in tonight's black, black sky that it can possible come.
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In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
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Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and our efforts. Hospitality is the way we come out of ourselves. It is the first step towards dismantling the barriers of the world. Hospitality is the way we turn a prejudiced world around, one heart at a time.
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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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Hospitality is simply love on the loose.
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Religion is pointing toward the moon
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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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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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Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never exaggerate. It is a lesson that a world full of cults and fads and workaholics and short courses in difficult subjects needs dearly to learn.
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We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is
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But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.
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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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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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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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Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.
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Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.
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