Quotes by Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris

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.

Love

Running

Struggle

Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn’t care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.

Discipline

Motivation

Writing

Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

Force

Knows

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can’t. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Delay

Goal

Vision

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Heart

Persistence

Resilience

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

Adults

Order

Taught

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 days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.

Christian

Daily Tasks

Philosophy

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

Husband

Trouble

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

Change

Inspirational

Past

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

Life

Saving

Soul

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Adults

Art

Attention

Baking

Beautiful

Bitter

Book

Bread

Change

Children

Christ

Christian

Classic

Conspiracy

Conventional

Cost

Crucible

Curiosity

Daily Tasks

Delay

Desert

Desire

Dictionary

Dignity

Discipline

Dying

Essentials

Eternity

Events

Exercise

Faces

Feelings

Fool

Force

Found

Friendship

Fruit

Funny

Future

Giving

Goal

Grace

Happiness

Hard Work

Hatred

Heart

Helping

Home

Humility

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Quotes by Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris

Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn’t care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.

Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

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

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

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