Quotes by : Kathleen Norris

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....