Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

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• There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth…
• In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the…
• History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make…
• The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I hope you’ll hear…
• We become what we pay attention to.
• Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything…
• Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in…
• I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.
• A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
• The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
• The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!
• My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
• When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in…
• The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living…
• Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know…
• In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.
• We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.
• Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.
• Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.
• "Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he said. "I wanna…

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