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.

I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.

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

You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.

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)

I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.