Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

- Kathleen Norris

For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble th…

- Kathleen Norris

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

- Kathleen Norris

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

- Kathleen Norris

But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these da…

- Kathleen Norris

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

- Kathleen Norris

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

- Kathleen Norris

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

- Kathleen Norris

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

- Kathleen Norris