“ Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that… Kathleen Norris
“ All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. Kathleen Norris
“ None of us knows what the next change is going to be what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner waiting to change all the tenor of our lives. Kathleen Norris
“ Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. Kathleen Norris
“ The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in ou… Kathleen Norris
“ When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who… Kathleen Norris
“ I just don’t understand how you can get so much comfort from a religion whose language does so much harm.”…I realized that what troubled me most was her use of the word “comfort,” so in my reply I add… Kathleen Norris
“ It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired. Kathleen Norris
“ Wantonness might be sheer desperation, masking a suicidal self-debasement, but it might also represent a joyful, lusty sexuality that indicated, at heart, a vast generosity of spirit. Kathleen Norris
“ More than ever, I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity to cope with change. Kathleen Norris
“ By the time a town is 75 or 100 years old, it may be filled with those who have come to idealize their isolation. Often these are people who never left at all, or fled back to the safety of the town a… Kathleen Norris
“ Change is still resented on the Plains, so much so much so that many small-town people cling to the dangerous notion that while the world outside may change drastically, their town does not...... when… Kathleen Norris
“ True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered onl… Kathleen Norris
