Quotes by : Joan D. Chittister

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

To pray in the midst of the mundane is simply and strongly to assert that this dull and tiring day is....

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....

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

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.....

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....