Kathleen Norris Quotes

• If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.

  Kathleen Norris

  Loss, Order, Grace

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• Orar no es pedir lo que crees que quieres, sino pedir que te cambien de un modo que no puedes imaginar.

  Kathleen Norris

  Motivational, Prayer, Thinking

  Kathleen Norris (1999). “Amazing Grace”, p.60, Penguin

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• 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 through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.

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  Giving, Grace, Attention

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

  Kathleen Norris

  Secret, Position

  Kathleen Thompson Norris (1914). “Saturday's Child”

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• El mero hecho de saber que un buen libro le espera a uno al final de un largo día hace que ese día sea más feliz.

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  Happiness, Book, Long

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• 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.

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  Heart, Persistence, Resilience

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

  Kathleen Norris

  Inspirational, Change, Past

  Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 our ordinary circumstances.

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  Christian, Ideas, Desire

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• Pero son las tareas cotidianas, los actos diarios de amor y adoración los que sirven para recordarnos que la religión no es estrictamente una búsqueda intelectual, y en estos días es fácil perderlo de vista ya que, como nuestra propia sociedad, las iglesias están cada vez más politizadas y polarizadas. La fe cristiana es una forma de vida, no una fortaleza inexpugnable hecha de ideas; no una filosofía; no una lista de creencias.

  Kathleen Norris

  Christian, Philosophy, Daily Tasks

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• 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.

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  Children, Way, Taught

  Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.52, Penguin

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

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  Helping, Dictionary

  Kathleen Norris (1999). “Amazing Grace”, p.110, Penguin

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• A pesar del coste de la vida, sigue siendo popular.

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  Divertido, Vida, Ingenioso

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• Nos engañamos a nosotros mismos al considerar la fe religiosa como una cuestión de asentimiento intelectual. Esto es una aberración moderna; la visión cristiana tradicional es mucho más holística, considerando la fe como una experiencia de todo el cuerpo. A veces es, como lo describió W.H. Auden, "una cuestión de elegir lo que es difícil todos los días como si fuera fácil".

  Kathleen Norris

  Christian, Religious, Views

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• Paz - ese era el otro nombre para el hogar.

  Kathleen Norris

  Home, Names, Sweet Home

  KATHLEEN NORRIS (1931). “THE SACRIFICE YEARS”

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• The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

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  Ordinary, Baking, Bread

  Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.15, Paulist Press

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• Antes de empezar una cosa, recuérdate que te esperan dificultades y retrasos imposibles de prever. Si pudieras verlos con claridad, naturalmente podrías hacer mucho para librarte de ellos, pero no puedes. Sólo puedes ver una cosa con claridad y ésa es tu meta. Forma una visión mental de ello y aférrate a ella en las buenas y en las malas.

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  Goal, Vision, Delay

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• We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

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  Children, Future, Giving

  Kathleen Thompson Norris (1931). “Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women”

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• I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.

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  People, Goal, Strive

  Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.35, Paulist Press

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• There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.

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  Winter, Years, Needs

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• Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.

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  Seven Years, May, Classic

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• La verdadera hospitalidad se caracteriza por una respuesta abierta a la dignidad de todas y cada una de las personas. Henri Nouwen la ha descrito como recibir al forastero en sus propios términos, y afirma que sólo pueden ofrecerla quienes "han encontrado el centro de su vida en su propio corazón".

  Kathleen Norris

  Heart, Receiving, Dignity

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• 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.

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  Motivation, Writing, Discipline

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• When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.

  Kathleen Norris

  Ruth, Left

  "Dakota: A Spiritual Geography".

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• Pero para tener una fe adulta, la mayoría de nosotros tenemos que superar y desaprender mucho de lo que nos enseñaron sobre religión.

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  Order, Adults, Taught

  Kathleen Norris (1999). “Amazing Grace”, p.24, Penguin

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• One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

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  May, Fool, Bitter

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