"Each and every one of us has one……" — Kathleen Norris
"Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence"
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31 Quotes by Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris has 31 quotes on this site.
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Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
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In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is…
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Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down.…
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The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a…
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
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This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
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I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?
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When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story…
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Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.
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I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are…
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Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day…
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A…
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It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in…
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If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do…
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The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen…
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Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be…
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We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we…
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