"For grace to be grace, it must give……" — Kathleen Norris
"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 want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before."
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Kathleen Norris
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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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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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