Quotes by : Joan D. Chittister

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

It is one thing to speak kindly to an irritating stranger on Monday. It is quite another thing to go....

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....

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

Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the....

War within ourselves is always a prelude to war outside ourselves. All war starts within our own hearts.....

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

Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats.....

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