A short-lived fascination with another person may be exciting-I think we've all seen people aglow, in a state of being "in love with love"-but such an attraction is not sustainable over the long run. Paradoxically, human love is sanctified not in the height of attraction and enthusiasm, but in the everyday struggles of living with another person. It is not in romance but in routine that the possibilities for transformation are made manifest. And that requires commitment.
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. - 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
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
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…
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
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.
Changing husbands is only changing troubles. - Kathleen Norris
Changing husbands is only changing troubles.
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
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.
Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret. - Kathleen Norris
Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship. - Kathleen Norris
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
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
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…
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. - Kathleen Norris
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
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