Kathleen Norris quotes

Kathleen Norris was an American novelist and poet, widely known for her best-selling novels in the early 20th century. Her works often explored themes of family life, faith, and social issues. She became one of the most popular and highest-paid female writers of her era. Here are 21 of her quotes:

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

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.

Kathleen Norris

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

Kathleen Norris

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

There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.

Kathleen Norris

I write what I would like to read – what I think other women would like to read. If what I write makes a woman in the Canadian mountains cry and she writes and tells me about it, especially if she says ‘I read it to Tom when he came in from work and he cried too,' I feel I have succeeded.

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 kept me supplied with books.

Kathleen Norris

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Kathleen Norris

Home ought to be our clearing house, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.

Kathleen Norris

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Kathleen Norris

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Kathleen Norris

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.

Kathleen Norris

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

Kathleen Norris

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.

Kathleen Norris

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

Kathleen Norris

I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

Kathleen Norris