People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Sarah was up in her room with her heart broke so bad, Binah said you could hear it jangle when she walked.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped… — 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
Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he… — 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
Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were… — 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
A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding… — 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
