It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.
Joan D. ChittisterCompassion 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. ChittisterAn authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.
Joan D. ChittisterTo be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.
Joan D. ChittisterSpirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an opening of the self so that the Word of God can break in and make us new. Prayer unmasks. Prayer converts. Prayer impels. Prayer sustains us on the way. Pray for the grace it will take to continue what you would like to quit.
Joan D. ChittisterThe spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in the spiritual life we cultivate within. The whole purpose of wrestling with life is to be transformed into the self we are meant to become, to step out of the confines of our false securities and allow our creating God to go on creating. In us.
Joan D. Chittister