“…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
We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“One difficulty that people seeking to modernize hymnals and the language of worship inevitably run into is that contemporaries are never the… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“The often heard lament, “I have so little time,” gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance. — 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
The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do”… — 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
