Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

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I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.

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It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I've never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.

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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.

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How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts directed toward God. The essence of the centered life is attention to God in all we think, say and do. It is the growing realization of His presence in our most down-to-earth living.

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I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.

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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

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He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

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The redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.

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

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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

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I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

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There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship.

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I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

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Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long.

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You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

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You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.

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It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it.... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

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Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.

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The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.

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History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

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Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.

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When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

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The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred And that is a deeper place by far. That is the place of response, of unifying one's heart, mind, soul and feet around a decision.

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We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

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Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.' 'Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side. 'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.

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It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

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Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.

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Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable...

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Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

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You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.

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