--- title: "9 Matters Quotes By Sue Monk Kidd" description: "9 Matters quotes by Sue Monk Kidd. Plus more from Sue Monk Kidd and more Matters sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db8/sue-monk-kidd-404_matters_the-problem-is-people-know-what-matters_1501087.png" --- > [ “The problem is \[people\] know what matters, but they don't choose it.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/the-problem-is-people-know-what-matters-but-they-don-t-choose-it/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db8/sue-monk-kidd-404_matters_the-problem-is-people-know-what-matters_1501087.png) > [“The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/the-whole-problem-with-people-is-they-know-what-matters-but-they-don-2/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b9/sue-monk-kidd-404_matters_the-whole-problem-with-people-is-they-kn_2328101.png) > [The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/the-whole-problem-with-people-is-they-don-t-know-what-matters-and/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/563/sue-monk-kidd-404_matter_the-whole-problem-with-people-is-they-do_1255365.png) > [What matters is giving over to what you love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/what-matters-is-giving-over-to-what-you-love/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea8/sue-monk-kidd-404_generosity_what-matters-is-giving-over-to-what-you_3040500.png) > [Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/sometimes-in-order-to-say-yes-to-what-matters-most-i-must-say-no-to/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/234/sue-monk-kidd-404_diplomat_sometimes-in-order-to-say-yes-to-what-ma_1326405.png) > [I think books with spiritual themes simply point to the deeper mysteries of life - to what lies beyond us, to what's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-think-books-with-spiritual-themes-simply-point-to-the-deeper/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cb/sue-monk-kidd-404_beyond_i-think-books-with-spiritual-themes-simp_1739559.jpg) > [I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-can-t-explain-exactly-why-it-lives-within-me-for-so-long-and/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/787/sue-monk-kidd-404_about_i-can-t-explain-exactly-why-it-lives-wit_835942.jpg) > [some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/some-things-don-t-matter-much-like-the-color-of-a-house-how-big-is/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/sue-monk-kidd-404_bigs_some-things-don-t-matter-much-like-the-c_676054.jpg) > [“August says to Lily," You know some things don't matter that much Lily. Like the colour of the house. How big is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/august-says-to-lily-you-know-some-things-don-t-matter-that-much-lily/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d04/sue-monk-kidd-404_hardest-thing_august-says-to-lily-you-know-some-things_285786.png) ## Other authors on Matters ## More by Sue Monk Kidd > [“But benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/but-benevolent-patriarchy-is-still-patriarchy/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“It's part of our overall Body Negation Program.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/it-s-part-of-our-overall-body-negation-program/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“That was the thing mauma and I loved, our time with the quilts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/that-was-the-thing-mauma-and-i-loved-our-time-with-the-quilts/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/in-recent-years-my-understanding-of-god-had-evolved-into-increasingly/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/we-need-not-avoid-our-active-lives-but-simply-bring-to-them-a-new/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my life. They are my consolation. For them I dove with arms outstretched,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/the-mermaids-came-to-me-finally-in-the-pink-hours-of-my-life-they-are/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/the-bag-contained-a-pair-of-white-cotton-gloves-stained-the-color-of/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-eventually-found-that-the-soul-is-more-than-an-immortal-commodity/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/readiness-for-dying-arrives-by-attending-the-smallest-moment-and/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace laid cross…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/i-sat-at-her-desk-and-turned-one-page-after-another-staring-at-what/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/the-translucence-that-comes-when-life-hardens-into-a-bead-of-such/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“There's no pain on earth that doesn't require a benevolent witness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/there-s-no-pain-on-earth-that-doesn-t-require-a-benevolent-witness/) [sue monk kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/afflicted-with-the-worst-female-curse-on-earth-the-need-to-mold/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/her-forbidden-bath-all-those-months-ago-still-hung-leaden-between-us/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) > [“Why should God’s perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?” I asked. “Isn’t flexibility more perfect than stasis?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/why-should-god-s-perfection-be-based-on-having-an-unchanging-nature-i/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/matters/sue-monk-kidd/#itemlist", "name": "9 Matters Quotes By Sue Monk Kidd", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The problem is [people] know what matters, but they don't choose it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sue Monk Kidd" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/the-problem-is-people-know-what-matters-but-they-don-t-choose-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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