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We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

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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Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the strange knock at the door, the sudden sight of an unceremoniously blooming flower, an afternoon in the yard, a day of riding the midtown bus. Just to see. Just to notice. Just to be there.
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But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.
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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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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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We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.
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Religion is pointing toward the moon
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In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
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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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I celebrate myself, the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating the self — our achievements, our experiences, our existence. Imagine what it would be like to look into the mirror and say, as God taught us, That's good.
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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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Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance, as time to be lived with eager expectation of its goodness, not in dread of its challenges.
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It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me.
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Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.
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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 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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We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.
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Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it
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Hospitality is simply love on the loose.
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