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Sister Joan Chittister

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2023-05-03
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  1. “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.”

    2023-05-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “And I know my age, and I know where I've come from, a community of Benedictan 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.”

    2023-05-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Well, what happened is what's happening in the United States, I feel very strongly that the country as a country and the globe as a globe is at a crossover moment in time. Yes. And I've been dealing with that phrase in my head for four or five years now. We are leaving. We have already left. One form of life that you and I were taught from first grade on and is now disappearing in front of our eyes to something new that is new but has no true north. Yes. It has no moral compass. It gives us no direction. What it does is shatter everything we've been told all of our lives could not be shattered. And so I get up in the morning.”

    2023-05-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “I don't want to be corning, but it is life. You know, I live for the fulfillment of life, not just in myself, but in others. So when I get up in the morning, I always have a goal. I think purpose is the definition of the life well-lived.”

    2023-05-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Well, I think that's right. There was something Bruin physically then. I was a lot more tired than I realized. I'm much healthier now.”

    2023-05-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Super Soul Special: Sister Joan Chittister: The Time is Now · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source