All Kathleen Norris Quotes
- Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. Asking
- In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. Cost
- If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It… Accepting
- 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 we… All
- The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough… Asks
- Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. Change
- This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship. Dictionary
- I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy? Beauty
- When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin… Afternoon
- Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things. Absurd
- I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out… Begin
- Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. Book
- It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough? All
- Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret. Happiness
- For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't… Altered
- The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. Activities
- We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more… Aberration
- Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you… Ahead
- True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger… Asserts
- But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but… Astonishing