{"id":9356,"date":"2025-03-01T19:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T23:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2025-03-01T19:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T23:17:39","slug":"uniting-chittister-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9356","title":{"rendered":"Uniting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chittister2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chittister2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chittister2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chittister2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chittister2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chittister2-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chittister2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abba Daniel, wise old monk, knows that the purpose of the spiritual life is not to separate us from others.  On the contrary, it is meant to unite us, but all too often it is used to divide us.  Only the really spiritual, the real religious in every tradition, know that the One God wants us all to be one.  We are meant to identify with the hopes and fears, and the needs and struggles, of the whole world &#8212; because the world is God&#8217;s, and we are God&#8217;s agents on earth.  No, the world cannot separate us from God.  Only we can do that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Joan Chittister, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/in_gods_holy_light.html\">In God&#8217;s Holy Light<\/a><\/em>, p. 39<\/p>\n<p>Photo: View from Burg Falkenstein, Germany, June 19, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abba Daniel, wise old monk, knows that the purpose of the spiritual life is not to separate us from others. On the contrary, it is meant to unite us, but all too often it is used to divide us. Only the really spiritual, the real religious in every tradition, know that the One God wants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,37,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-connection","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9446,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions\/9446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}