“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.” KindPersonsMoralStepsFiguresPerspectiveAuthorityUltimateBlindInsightObedienceHolinessDiscernmentForesightAuthority FiguresBlind Obedience Author:Joan D. Chittister
“If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.” IfsPersonsConstantCancerComplainingDiminish Author:Joan D. Chittister
“To 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.” MayPersonsLongLife IsGoalExerciseUltimateSacredPerpetualLife GoalUltimate Goal Author:Joan D. Chittister
“Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.” PersonsDoeRealAcceptanceShapesUniversalCurrencyWarpReal FriendshipWrenches Author:Joan D. Chittister
“Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.” FirstsHumansChildrenPersonsSoulLawNamesIndividualReligiousSinMoralMilitaryFiguresMoralityAuthorityEthicsConscienceAdultsCommitmentOrganizationAbuseIndependenceBlindObedienceAgencySubstitutesHuman SoulVowMisuseBlind Obedience Author:Joan D. Chittister
“"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision only when they have a dream that drives them on.” KnowsPersonsDreamGoalVisionWindPhilosopherHarborsRoman Philosophers Author:Joan D. Chittister
“The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.” KnowsWorldPersonsMomentsHomeArtistUniverseWomenResponsibilityRightsInfluenceComing HomeResurrectionSculptorsRights And Responsibilities Author:Joan D. Chittister
