Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“As de Beauvoir put it, religion had given men a God like themselves--a God exclusively male in imagery, which legitimized and sealed… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I think books with spiritual themes simply point to the deeper mysteries of life - to what lies beyond us, to what's… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Not setting the 'proper and accepted' religious example for them conjured up images of the bad mother, the worst mother. Yet wouldn't… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“She said it again, "I'm tired." She wanted me to tell her it was all right, to get her spirit and go… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“You know, she's really just a figurehead off an old ship, but the people needed comfort and rescue, so when they looked… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Already that morning missus had taken her cane stick to me once cross my backside for falling asleep during her devotions. Every… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my life. They are my consolation. For them I dove with arms outstretched,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace laid cross… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Her forbidden bath all those months ago still hung leaden between us, though Handful didn't seem the least bit ashamed by my discovery of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Why should God’s perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?” I asked. “Isn’t flexibility more perfect than stasis?” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
