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Top 120 Joan D. Chittister Quotes (2024 Update)
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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Bloom where you are planted,′ the poster reads. But the poster does not tell the whole story. ′ plant yourself where you know you can bloom’ may well be the poster we all need to see. Or better yet, “Work the arid soil however long it takes until something that fulfills the rest of you finally makes the desert in you bloom.”

101. “Bloom where you are planted,′ the poster reads. But the poster does not tell the whole story. ′ plant yourself where you know you can bloom’ may well be the poster we all need to see. Or better yet, “Work the arid soil however long it takes until something that fulfills the rest of you finally makes the desert in you bloom.”

— Joan D. Chittister

Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.”

102. “Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.”

— Joan D. Chittister

Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.”

103. “Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.”

104. “If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God.”

105. “To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “To simply withdraw from the arena of ideas, from public discourse on public issues, from the value formation of the young – to shrug our shoulders and say, “I don’t know” or, worse, “I don’t care about those things anymore” – is to abandon the young to the mercy of their own ideas without the benefit of experience to guide them.”

106. “To simply withdraw from the arena of ideas, from public discourse on public issues, from the value formation of the young – to shrug our shoulders and say, “I don’t know” or, worse, “I don’t care about those things anymore” – is to abandon the young to the mercy of their own ideas without the benefit of experience to guide them.”

— Joan D. Chittister

Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Religion is pointing toward the moon.”

107. “Religion is pointing toward the moon.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often – in some instances for our lifetime – before we come to realize that it is not so much the victory as it is the struggle that is holy.”

108. “Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often – in some instances for our lifetime – before we come to realize that it is not so much the victory as it is the struggle that is holy.”

— Joan D. Chittister

Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with it, we close our minds to our responsibility to ourselves – and to others – to keep on growing.”

109. “Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with it, we close our minds to our responsibility to ourselves – and to others – to keep on growing.”

— Joan D. Chittister

Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. “Success is dangerous,” the painter Pablo Picasso said. “One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.””

110. “Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. “Success is dangerous,” the painter Pablo Picasso said. “One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.””

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect – anad that is completely all right. We are who we are – and so is everyone else.”

111. “Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect – anad that is completely all right. We are who we are – and so is everyone else.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.”

112. “The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “When God has become a business, though, it is very hard for people to get the confidence to realize that God is really a personal God, a God who touches us as individuals, a God who is as close to us as we choose to see. We have learned well the remoteness of a God who lived for so long behind communion rails and altar steps and seminary doors and chancery desks that the experience of God, however strong, has always been more private secret than public expectation.”

113. “When God has become a business, though, it is very hard for people to get the confidence to realize that God is really a personal God, a God who touches us as individuals, a God who is as close to us as we choose to see. We have learned well the remoteness of a God who lived for so long behind communion rails and altar steps and seminary doors and chancery desks that the experience of God, however strong, has always been more private secret than public expectation.”

— Joan D. Chittister

Joan D. Chittister Quote: “For the Jew, Passover is a sign of salvation, of “God with us” at a particular historical moment in the past. For the Christian, Easter is a sign of “God with us” in the past, but with us now also and at a time to come, as well.”

114. “For the Jew, Passover is a sign of salvation, of “God with us” at a particular historical moment in the past. For the Christian, Easter is a sign of “God with us” in the past, but with us now also and at a time to come, as well.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don’t make up strange and exotic ‘penances.’ Simply say no to yourself once a day, and you will be on the road to sanctity for the rest of your life.”

115. “Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don’t make up strange and exotic ‘penances.’ Simply say no to yourself once a day, and you will be on the road to sanctity for the rest of your life.”

— Joan D. Chittister

Joan D. Chittister Quote: “It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.”

116. “It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “To insist on living until we die may be one of life’s greatest virtues.”

117. “To insist on living until we die may be one of life’s greatest virtues.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Prayer restores the soul that is dry and dulled by years of trying to create a world that never completely comes.”

118. “Prayer restores the soul that is dry and dulled by years of trying to create a world that never completely comes.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “These questions do not call for the discovery of data; they call for the contemplation of possibility.”

119. “These questions do not call for the discovery of data; they call for the contemplation of possibility.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what you are expecting in life.”

120. “Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what you are expecting in life.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “This compulsion to look back, to explain to myself, to others, why I did what I did – or, worse, to justify why I didn’t do something else – is one of the most direct roads to depression we have. Our thoughts, emotions, and attitudes, according to Dr. Andrew Weil in his book Healthy Aging, are “key determinants of how we age.” They can threaten the quality of time we bring to the present.”

121. “This compulsion to look back, to explain to myself, to others, why I did what I did – or, worse, to justify why I didn’t do something else – is one of the most direct roads to depression we have. Our thoughts, emotions, and attitudes, according to Dr. Andrew Weil in his book Healthy Aging, are “key determinants of how we age.” They can threaten the quality of time we bring to the present.”

— Joan D. Chittister

Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Spirituality is not meant to be a panacea for human pain. Nor is it a substitute for critical conscience. Spirituality energizes the soul to provide what the world lacks.”

122. “Spirituality is not meant to be a panacea for human pain. Nor is it a substitute for critical conscience. Spirituality energizes the soul to provide what the world lacks.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Better to walk through life simply and without masks, than to lose ourselves in the pursuit of identities that are purely cosmetic and commercial. Then, at least, we will be known for what we are rather than for what we are not.”

123. “Better to walk through life simply and without masks, than to lose ourselves in the pursuit of identities that are purely cosmetic and commercial. Then, at least, we will be known for what we are rather than for what we are not.”

— Joan D. Chittister

Joan D. Chittister Quote: “If God worked through one woman to bring redemption, how is it that anyone can argue that God does not go on working through other women as well?”

124. “If God worked through one woman to bring redemption, how is it that anyone can argue that God does not go on working through other women as well?”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “God’s will for us is what’s left over when we have done everything we can possibly do to get out of doing what we’re doing rigth now.”

125. “God’s will for us is what’s left over when we have done everything we can possibly do to get out of doing what we’re doing rigth now.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “Humility does not necessarily require me to agree and comply with everyone else’s position, but it does demand that I be willing to understand and respect the many sides of every issue.”

126. “Humility does not necessarily require me to agree and comply with everyone else’s position, but it does demand that I be willing to understand and respect the many sides of every issue.”

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Joan D. Chittister Quote: “God is indeed everywhere in everything at all times – in the abstruse as well as the luminous, whether we ourselves can see the hand of God in this moment or not.”

127. “God is indeed everywhere in everything at all times – in the abstruse as well as the luminous, whether we ourselves can see the hand of God in this moment or not.”

— Joan D. Chittister

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