Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Indeed, love is everything.

Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.

Later I would read Ursula K. Le Guin's comment: I am a slow unlearner. But I love my unteachers.

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

Place a beehive on my graveAnd let the honey soak through.When I'm dead and gone,That's what I want from you.The streets of heaven are gold and sunny,But I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey.Pla...

Whenever I opened one, T. Ray said, Who do you think you are, Julius Shakespeare? The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare’s first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ign...

Why should God’s perfection be based on having an unchanging nature? I asked. Isn’t flexibility more perfect than stasis?

With winter the feeling had deepened. I would see a neighbor running along the sidewalk in front of the house, training, I imagined, for a climb up Kilimanjaro. Or a friend at my book club giving a bl...

You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The Negro is not some other kind of creature than we are. Whiteness is not sacred. It can't on defi...

Women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.

A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a new land that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ...so that yo...

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.