Quotes by : Joan D. Chittister

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.....

One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check....

Silence is a frightening thing. Silences leaves us at the mercy of the noise within us. We hear the fears....

Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth....

Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It....

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.....

Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places....

Humble people walk comfortably in every group. No one is either too beneath them or too above them for....

Friendship is the call out of isolation and selfishness in order to teach me how to love and how to serve.....

Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places....