“You know, some things don't matter that much, Lily. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the over-all… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“As I descended the stairs, the years between us seemed accumulated everywhere, filling the house, and it seemed strange to me, how… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“People start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I longed for it in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life she didn’t choose.” — 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
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Mr. Vesey, though, he didn't like any kind of talk about heaven. He said that was the coward’s way, pining for life… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Ee come a time when eby tub haffa res pon e won bottom, said Hepzibah, then translated: At some point in life,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a… — 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
“You know, some things don’t matter that much, Lily. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God… — 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
“You know, Lily, people can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a… — 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
And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting,… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“There's no pain on earth that doesn't require a benevolent witness.” — sue monk kidd Copy Share Image
