Joan D. Chittister

Quotes

• “One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check with others becaus...”
• “It is one thing to speak kindly to an irritating stranger on Monday. It is quite another thing to go on speaking kindly ...”
• “War within ourselves is always a prelude to war outside ourselves. All war starts within our own hearts. When our egos a...”
• “Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological ...”
• “Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfecti...”
• “Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfecti...”
• “Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take plac...”