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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.
Joan D. Chittister
Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.
Joan D. Chittister
The question is not, do we go to church the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor.
Joan D. Chittister
To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.
Joan D. Chittister
Ideals are like stars, Carl Schurz wrote. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. Ideals do not determine what we do to make a living in life They govern what we become as we do it.
Joan D. Chittister
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.
Joan D. Chittister
If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the kings acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.
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
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.
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
We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is
Joan D. Chittister
We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our strength.
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
To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away until the tiny world for which we ourselves are responsible begins to reflect the raw beauty that is God.
Joan D. Chittister
Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.
Joan D. Chittister
We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.
Joan D. Chittister
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.
Joan D. Chittister
To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.
Joan D. Chittister
Hospitality is simply love on the loose.
Joan D. Chittister