Sister Joan Chittister Controversy Quotes & Sayings

Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile. — Mother Teresa

Your motive influences your motion. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time. — Alice Sebold

God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her ... — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers. — Tucker Max

Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life. — John Boehner

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom. — Ashley Montagu

The disaster at the Chernobyl plant, along with the war in Afghanistan and the cruise-missile question, is generally seen today as the start of the decline of the Soviet Union. Just as the great famine of 1891 had mercilessly laid bare the failure of czarism, almost a century later Chernobyl clearly showed how divided, rigid and rotten the Soviet regime had become. The principal policy instruments, secrecy and repression, no longer worked in a modern world with its accompanying means of communication. The credibility of the party leadership sank to the point at which it could sink no further. In the early hours of 26 April, 1986, two explosions took place in one of the four reactors at the giant nuclear complex. It was an accident of the kind scientists and environmental activists had been warning about for years, particularly because of its effects: a monstrous emission of iodine-131 and caesium-137. Huge radioactive clouds drifted across half of Europe: — Geert Mak

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers. — Ariel Sharon

There is no great genius without tincture of madness. — Seneca.

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become. — Donald Pleasence

The Eucharist is not only a particularly intense expression of the reality of the Church's life, but also in a sense its fountainhead. The Eucharist feeds and forms the Church: 'Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread' (1 Cor 10:17, RSV). Because of this vital link with the sacrament of the Body and Blood of the Lord, the mystery of the Church is savored, proclaimed, and lived supremely in the Eucharist. — Pope John Paul II