“In choosing a bare bones existence, we are enriched, and can redefine success as an internal process rather than an outward display… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“Might we consider boredom as not only necessary for our life but also as one of its greatest blessings? A gift, pure… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“Both liturgy and what is euphemistically termed 'domestic work' also have an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of faith… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the nitty-gritty, what ties these threads of biblical narrative together into a revelation of God's love is that… — kathleen norris Copy Share Image
Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“The Bible is full of evidence that God's attention is indeed fixed on the little things. But this is not because God… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“I just don’t understand how you can get so much comfort from a religion whose language does so much harm.”…I realized that… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot? — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.” — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. . .… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
