"I wonder if children don't begin to reject……" — Kathleen Norris
"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 of them."
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31 Quotes by Kathleen Norris
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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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Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day…
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It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . .…
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