Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.
Joan D. Chittister
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Joan D. Chittister
Period
Periods
Spiritual
Living
Need
Needs
Really
Globalization
Ethics
More quotes by Joan D. Chittister
To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.
Joan D. Chittister
June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.
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
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.
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
If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.
Joan D. Chittister
Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.
Joan D. Chittister
Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.
Joan D. Chittister
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.
Joan D. Chittister
Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do, they do, too. That's a sad and plastic life-routine and comfortable, maybe, but still sad.
Joan D. Chittister
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.
Joan D. Chittister
The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
Joan D. Chittister
But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.
Joan D. Chittister
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
It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.
Joan D. Chittister
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.
Joan D. Chittister
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.
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
Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.
Joan D. Chittister
Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can never tolerate lack of status and depth of weakness in the other.
Joan D. Chittister