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Joan D. Chittister

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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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Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.
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The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement the harvest of middle-age is perspective the harvest of age is wisdom the harvest of life is serenity.
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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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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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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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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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Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.
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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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The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
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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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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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Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.
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But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.
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Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.
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We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.
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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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We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is
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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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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.
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