“…religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can’t be purchased like a burger or a… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught… — 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
We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view… — 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
But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly… — 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
