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Sister Joan D. Chittister is an American Benedictine nun, theologian, and advocate. She has written more than sixty books focusing both on monasticism and interfaith issues such as peace, justice, and equality, especially for women in church and society.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageFeminists are asking women and men not to buy into patriarchal systems that destroy them both. Feminism comes to bring both men and women to the fullness of life, the wholeness of soul, for which we were all made in the image and likeness of God.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLife with someone else, in other words, doesn’t show me nearly as much about his or her shortcomings as it does about my own. . . .That’s how relationships sanctify me. They show me where holiness is for me. That’s how relationships develop me. They show me where growth is for me.

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FindCenter Quotes ImagePrayer that is regular confounds both self-importance and the wiles of the world. It is so easy for good people to confuse their own work with the work of creation. It is so easy to come to believe that what we do is so much more important than what we are.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe have watched our educational system begin to fray because we have taken weapons for granted and preferred a strong military to an educated population.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWomen learn in such a system that, though they are usually tolerated in life and often loved, they are seldom respected for themselves, for their opinions, for their talents, for their perspectives. The life of a woman shrivels under the weight of an unnatural deference and lost development.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHumble people walk comfortably in every group. No one is either too beneath them or too above them for their own sense of well-being. They are who they are, people with as much to give as to get, and they know it. And because they’re at ease with themselves, they can afford to be open with others.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe struggle to maintain a dead past in the name of peace and refuse the new life that running water brings to everything. We confuse ‘stagnant’ with ‘calm’ and call it holiness. We miss the power of the paradox that peace is not passivity and that a living death is neither death nor life.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI began to trust the questions themselves to lead me beyond answers to understanding, beyond practice to faith.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageBlind 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.

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