128 Quotes by Joan D. Chittister

The kind of “blind obedience” once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure.

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.

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.

I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not “coming.” Heaven is here.

Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.

We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.

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.

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.