Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

You're looking for a reason," she said. "And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present.

Not setting the 'proper and accepted' religious example for them conjured up images of the bad mother, the worst mother. Yet wouldn't the example of a mother being true to her journey, taking a stand against patriarchy, and questing for spiritual meaning and wholeness, even when it meant exiting circles of orthodoxy, be a worthwhile example?

Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it's the shutting of the door that makes the difference. Solitude is a time for stripping away everything in order to focus on God. (Matt 6:6)

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

Have you ever noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get?

I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only think I could compare it to was the feeling I got one time when I walked from the peach stand and saw the sun spreading across the late afternoon, setting the top of the orchard on fire while darkness collected underneath. Silence had hovered over my head, beauty multiplying in the air, the trees so transparent I felt like I could see through t something pure inside them. My chest ached then, too, this very same way.