Kathleen Norris Quotes

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one aft...

None of us knows what the next change is going to be what unexpected opportunity is just around the...

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee a...

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee ar...

Friendship is an art and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow ...

I just don’t understand how you can get so much comfort from a religion whose language does so much ...

At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine wha...

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

Change is still resented on the Plains, so much so much so that many small-town people cling to the ...

True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen...

For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity...

By the time a town is 75 or 100 years old, it may be filled with those who have come to idealize the...

...the imagination works not so much through inspiration as through perseverance. One must slog thro...

What we perceive as dejection over the futility of life is sometimes greed, which the monastic tradi...

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us do...

I recall the passage in the letter to the Hebrews in which we are reminded that Christ has already d...

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal n...

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

More than ever, I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natu...

If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.

Hate is all a lie there is no truth in hate.

Wantonness might be sheer desperation, masking a suicidal self-debasement, but it might also represe...

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intole...

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also ru...

One may have been a fool but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but i...