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....

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

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.....

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

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....