128 Quotes by Joan D. Chittister

Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don’t have to be great at all. Just in awe.

Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it.

We have learned that the things we amassed to prove to ourselves how valuable, how important, how successful we were, didn’t prove it at all. In fact, they have very little to do with it. It’s what’s inside of us, not what’s outside of us that counts.

Life is the ability to start over again.

Hospitality is simply love on the loose.

Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.

Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.

Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.

It’s the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.