Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.

- Joan D. Chittister

Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of proof in tonight's black, black sky that i…

- Joan D. Chittister

It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me be…

- Joan D. Chittister

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

- Joan D. Chittister

There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment a…

- Joan D. Chittister

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

- Joan D. Chittister

Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.

- Joan D. Chittister

The 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 w…

- Joan D. Chittister

The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of yo…

- Joan D. Chittister