Quotes by : Joan D. Chittister

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

We fail to move beyond what is safe, we abandon our dreams in favor of what is sure rather than strive....

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

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....

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....

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

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....