The Monastery of the Heart Quotes

“Stability of heart— commitment to the life of the soul, faithfulness to the community, perseverance in the search for God— is the mooring that holds us fast when the night of the soul is at its deepest dark, and the noontime sun sears the spirit. When”
― Joan D. Chittister, The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life

“Prayer restores the soul that is dry and dulled by years of trying to create a world that never completely comes.”
― Joan D. Chittister, The Monastery of the Heart: An invitation to the meaningful life

“Benedictine spirituality, after all,
is life lived to the hilt.
It is a life of concentration
on life's ordinary dimensions.
It is an attempt to do
the ordinary things of life
extraordinarily well.”
― Joan Chittister, Monastery of the Heart