Quotes by : Kathleen Norris

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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