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Joan Chittister

lines on the record: 54
first: 2019-05-27
most recent: 2019-05-27
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Uncommon courage, the courage we're not seeing now. That simple, honest, truthful, sincere moment when I'm able to say, I think differently.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I can't tell you. I mean, that's just almost without. There are no words for that. How do I deal with it? I see the institution and its 2,000-year history mottled. I mean, this institution split 400 years ago over exactly that kind of stuff. And then I see the Jesus story. And I know I was raised in this institution that had kept the Jesus story for me. For that, I'll always be grateful. And that's what I want for the church. And I will keep pressing for it in the church and know it is not fully alive there yet and has been disgraced in many ways. But this story drives me on, this Jesus story, and now what will the whole Jesus?”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. I see anger as grace. I'm a woman. Don't tell me not to be angry about the suppression of women everywhere, all colors, all languages, all places. I know what women are living in. And I wouldn't give up that anger for anything. It's fuel. It will keep me going in behalf of women 10 inches away from the edge of the grave. I will not stop because we need, without that anger, we're losing half the human race. We have half the human race deciding what the other half should do.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's us. And what I would want to say to us is clear. We're at a transition moment. It's obvious. I started with that. The world as I grew up in it, the world that taught me is no longer with us. We are facing now this misty gray. What happens on the other side of this bridge, we will build. We will either build or not build. What we want to have happen, we have got to begin to press for, not in any angry way, but in an obvious and open and loving way.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was just going to say, it is a popularity in the truest sense of the emotional meaning. It's keep my job. They start running for the position the day after they get”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we're on the verge of an emperor right now. Much further, how many more years do you think we can go relieving ourselves of the responsibility to check on our own representatives, senators, local commissioners, everybody? They're there for us. What are they doing? What did they do in the township? What did it do to the town?”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right. Yes. And I'm simply saying to people, would you pick this stuff up? Would you read it seriously? And if you're not a reader, would you find somebody who is, who sit down, bring five people together, say what is going on here? How can we help? What do we need to do? Get in to the public conversation.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then you find yourself without a country, without a home, without a planet. And I began to hear people say, I don't watch the news anymore. I just can't take it. It's too much. It makes me nervous. I get tense. And I said, there it is, John. Nobody is discussing anything. And discussing it has become debating it and debating it has become win or lose. And so here we are.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Even in their own families. You can't even bring it up. No, no. Thanksgiving is more fraught than it's ever been in history.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Forget about it. That was a real moment for me. I didn't even realize that that sentence had gotten into the book, but I did teach history as a young sister when I was teaching high school. And I loved it and the kids loved it. It was storytelling time. It was great. So I've been kind of a news freak all my life, right? And now I see this moment happening around me and I'm out with these wonderful groups of people and I have discovered two things. You either don't dare say one word because it will split this thing right down the middle instead of opening a conversation that is grasping people even in their own family.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you're at the point where you know that if I say this sentence to a Republican, that fire starts, if I say this sentence to a Democrat, the other fire starts, it's killing us. It's going to burn this country to dust.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nothing. Nothing. We need a political moment where they sit down and have just one weekly conversation on what are we here for and what are we doing?”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which is your third choice? Your third choice is to deal with it. Study it, develop it, form a group, join a group, support something, say this is how I want to do my part in this development.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You can succumb. You say, Sister Joan, that's the way it is now. It's just different now. I'm not talking about going back to the 19th century, for God's sake. What would be good about that? I'm talking about making the 21st century a glowing, growing moment for everybody. That's all I want. However, the person who makes the choice to roll over says let them do it. I'm sure it'll all come out all right. That's what they said in 1939. There was too much silence in 1939. And it wrecked all of Europe. We're sitting in a cesspool of silence instead of getting into the national conversation because only a moral national conversation can bring us through to another level of political humanity as well as spiritual humanity.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We have a choice. And every great moral moment Gives you three opportunities, and you can see them very clearly in our society. The first kind of choice is the choice that says, not me, I'm not getting into that. Let them handle it. That's not my problem. I'm out of here. I got the kids and the horses and the ponies and the racetrack. All the things that it, yeah. I don't get into that political stuff, right? That's your first choice, is to ignore it and go your own way as if you really are an independent member of society and humanity. Your second possible choice is to just, you can roll over.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you can get away with it. But you cannot say a spiritual idea and where it came from and have anybody listen with respect in this country.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you know, I look at you. I hope I'm allowed to say this because it's so meaningful and serious for me. You realize I'm going to go back. If you and I were back in the third century, we'd be sitting on the porch of one of the Greek temples and we would be talking about what do you think beauty is? What is kindness? What is love? What is a government? We would be using one another to flesh out this facet of this diamond of life. We don't do that anymore. We fight. We fight. Everything is an angry disputation. I'm right. You're wrong. As a result, you, my dear philosopher, have the only good program that we've ever had. You have saved thought in this nation for years. But at the same time, we're so divided. We're segmented. We do not see, that's why I talk about the separation of mind and soul. You can talk about anything in your mind.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you look at yourself in the mirror and you say who grew me like this when they say, Oprah, how did you get where you are? The answer is I listened to you. I listened to every single”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Else can win. You and I could sit here in front of a good poker table and we could put an issue on the table and we may find the more we talk that I never thought of it that way. Or no, no, I don't think that's going to work. Okay, tell me why you think it's civil discourse takes us into the heart of something so that we can come out of it with more heart and more mind than we had before.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think we're kind of when you talk about silence and that the courage it takes to say I think differently about that. That shouldn't take courage. That should be part of the soul of humanity waiting to hear the insights of someone else's soul. But you see how quickly we responded as a people to we're going to win and win and win until you're sick of winning. We're not here to win. We're here to grow. We're here to develop. We're here, we're here to leave the world a better place when we go because we've been here. And you only do that through civil discourse.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we got here because we have managed to keep the population. Happy without educating them to the under issues. Look at this year's proposed budget. The profits of budget reform will tell you that we are about to balance the national budget on the backs of women and children. Now, women and children are non-existent on an accountant's sheet. We don't have any of those there. We have income, outcome, and profit, right? So once you take this bottom part of humanity and you deny women child care, hey, guess whose profits go up? Deny children education. Guess whose profits go up? Deny your 80-year-old mother a pill she can afford. Guess whose profits go up? We started there. This is where it comes from. This whole notion that the successful person is the person who can sustain themselves without caring for anybody else.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Why don't you want to spend the money? Because you want the tax break. You want the tax break. You don't want to pay for education in this country. That's going to come back and bite us because people can't afford it anymore. And we're going to pretty soon be without a level of intellectualism in this country that can bring us beyond all of these issues.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. If pride is your sin, then you will never have enough adulation on the globe to be satisfied with. If lust is your sin, you will never have enough sex, enough men, enough women to fill up your sense of physical power. If anger is your sin, you'll die from the ulcers that burn inside you because you're always angry. God does not punish sin. Sin punishes sin. This is going to bite the heels out of us, Oprah. This attitude of self-centeredness is going to come back and get us because self-centeredness simply destroys itself.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“13th century mystic Julian of Norwich. Everybody quotes her song, and all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner. The only thing they don't realize is that that wasn't the sentence. That is the last part of the sentence. If you read the entire sentence in her 13th shoeing, she says, we must understand that God does not punish sin. Hang on, God does not punish sin. Sin punishes sin. Think about it.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At the border because it's good. Not good for the child for them at that moment. That's going to come back and bite you, bite them, Oprah. You can't sin like that in public as a people and not pay in your, you know, the...”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I'll tell you why I know because they don't want any tax money to go into feeding that child, educating that child, housing that child. I say that.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, here's another thing that's blocking us subconsciously. Our pride as a nation, and don't misunderstand quite rightly, is the separation of church and state. But it has become now the separation of mind and soul The whole notion that part of my spiritual development lies in my analysis of the effect of my society on everything around me is the measure of my moral value in this society. We love to talk about living as Jesus lived, but what we mean by that, apparently, is living as Jesus lived in the first century rather than living as Jesus would be living in this century. Live as Jesus would live in this century.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you and I were Greek philosophers. And we were sitting here together in the 3rd century BC. We would be talking about the development of the human conversation. Human discourse, as you have just described it, is over. It's over. It's all down to 64 or 144 little characters that allow you to disrespect another person's ideas or situation. You can't make a conversation out of what you said in this public media as we know it. So when I see the attempts of some people to clean up Facebook, for instance, and I'll say it in public because it's in every headline, and rightly so. Suddenly, the more tension, the more division, the more hatred you can spew, the higher your ratings. Whatever happened to our soul, Oprah.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You haven't. Don't complain to me about the loss of the waters of the oceans or the destruction of them. Get attached. Find your concern.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I need to begin to study. That's the very first thing Isaiah did. The biblical prophet Isaiah was completely rejected by his society. The most militaristic period in Hebrew history, and he couldn't get their attention. So did he call that a loss? No. He withdrew. He gathered groups around him. And he began to study and to prepare them. We have to study the legislation. We have to call our family together, call the club together, call the neighbor together, seven of you, five of you, and say, what are the implications of this? If this bill goes through, who will be affected? Who will be advantaged? Who will be disadvantaged by it? And then we have to magnify our voices. I tell people all the time, have you sent $5 to save the whales lately?”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's not so difficult. I'm not requiring anybody or even assuming that anybody should rush to the streets with placards. But I do think they should begin to become aware of what's going on around them. How do you do that? Let's say that there's a bill in Congress. How unusual on medical care? How about that? We'll just guess at that, that someday we might concern about medical care, right? And so when I know that that bill is there and coming.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In which he was not sure that they already had a majority of Republican votes before they walked in. Wasn't going to allow amendments and compromise and any kind of give and take. We don't have a Congress that is committed now to the common good. They're committed to party power, both of them. I'm not talking about our side. I'm talking about an attitude. The prophetic spirituality is this contrary attitude. And the contrary attitude is not a set of specific, pietistic, well-meaning, good feeling, religious little acts.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I don't know how much time is left in my own life, but I had to get this said so that it could be clear. And at least it would be out there some way. Somebody saying... Stop not only are we going in the wrong direction, we have simply abandoned the right direction. And the right direction is where we came from. We came from civility. We came from a care for common good. We came from compassion. We came as a democratic nation with the honor of compromise and now we have a Congress without conscience. They won't even lean across the aisle. We have partisanship tearing us apart and embedded in our very national framework. That's very recent. That starts with Newt Gingrich and Denny Hastert, and they institutionalized partisanship. Denny Hastert told his party that he would not take a bill on the floor.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're very genteel, but we are not prophetic. We are not honest. So what you get over here is the passivity that comes out of anxiety unexpressed. And that passivity leads to the silence that we're seeing now. Everybody knows that there's a storm coming from the north, but maybe it won't hit here.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Anxiety, and nobody gets hysterical. Nobody rushes to the streets. Very few people speak up even to their families because we're all, we were trained to be nice. We were never trained to be good.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“However, when any institution And passivity. So even the people who know that they're doing well right now are also afraid that maybe tomorrow the next she was going to drop.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, a whole world. Except our military. Where I go around the world, it's perfect clear that we are becoming irrelevant. We don't even claim to be the leader of the free world anymore because subconsciously we know we're not.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Every poll tells us, every single pole says the majority of Americans say we're on the wrong road. We're not going in the right direction. The majority of Americans. But they're saying it silently. They're saying it quietly. We need to begin to insist that this become our national conversation or internationally we're already dead. We have gone from outstanding and stunning national country to average. And now I travel a lot over.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the form of Sister Joan trying to tell us what's ahead. This is the work of the prophet, you see. As little kids, we learned one thing. There was one God. Was one God. Now, if you really believe that there is only one God, then you must believe that that one God is communicating these messages in all languages, in all terms, to all colors and all dialects everywhere. We're getting the same message about human unity, about care for one another. And yet, at the same time, we're tone deaf, except the prophet who stays sensitive to those words. There's one God who wills good for us all, and that God wills me to be part of that goodness for all. Therefore, I have to step up. I have to step up. I have to get into the human conversation. I have to participate in the conversation that's going on in this country right now about...”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're a self-same America first for the very first time in the history of this country, America first in a global world. No matter what our development does to anybody else's development, we have no criteria apparently that will require us to ask what are the effects of our nation on the family of nations.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But that's half the Christian dispensation. You turn Jesus the healer over and what you find is Jesus the prophet. This is the Jesus who contended, contested, confronted, and challenged those who were making it necessary to feed the hungry, to raise from the dead, to give some dignity to. We've lost”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right, they do. There's a consciousness in this. This is a Christian nation. Yes. And I suddenly realized who is the Jesus that we like to follow. We love to follow Jesus the healer. Makes us feel good. Jesus was good to women, raised little kids from the dead, talked.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it's not about. I'm not sure it's about person at all, to be quite frank. I believe that part of our problem at least lies in the fact that we have lost half the dimension of Christian spirituality. We see ourselves as very Christian people. Yes. And I believe that.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. Yes, a lot of people. You hear it on as long as the economy stays good, everything else can deteriorate around us. And we're on the verge of an imperial presidency. And it didn't just start here. You're dead right. This whole notion of government by executive order tears away, I was a history teacher.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, we Where for. And you know who's saying that? The immigrant families who came here because they would be welcomed, because there would be an opportunity for them. So I'm saying we've lost the rudder And we don't have another. So where shall we look for it?”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's just common sense matters. The whole notion that character is a component of leadership. We're all functional and pragmatic now. As long as it works here for me, that's all we need to have to know. We are losing a sense of the common good. I get up with this thing ringing in my head. I don't think it's historically true, but it's attached. If they don't have bread, let them eat cake. Only we're saying. We'll let them get a job like I did without a single notion that there is a whole body of the population for whom there are no jobs left.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. We're in a complete collapse and crisis of American values. Everything we took for granted civility, which is the basis for respect for other people.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and we got here on half a paddle. I'm arguing that one of the reasons we're in this and don't know how to get out of it is...”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so we're waiting for either the vending machine God to save us or this great constitutional structure to curb. It's not curbing anything.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Been told all of our lives could not be shattered. And so I get up in the morning and I know my age and I know where I've come from, a community of Benedictine women who spent their lives talking to me about the fully human life. And I see it Dropping out of the grasp of the next generation. I'll tell you the truth, Oprah. I don't want to go to my grave, and on that last sick bed, say to myself, and you said nothing. So I just decided I would write that book, throw it out there, make that statement about what I think is happening, what I think we must do to confront it, and then I'll at least know that somehow or other, I didn't let it go by in silence. Yes, there's too much silence going on in this country. Because you see, we've been taught that this can't happen to us.”
2019-05-27 · Oprah's Super Soul · Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source