Sue Monk Kidd

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#live #suicide #tired #death

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#god #humor #humor

Every little thing wants to be loved. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life

God is he whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#love

We are surrounded on all sides by God but often we are no more conscious of him than we are of air pressing against us. We don't turn our attention to Him. (Evelyn Underhill) ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#love

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them? ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#morals #life

The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life #life-lessons #values-in-life #life

All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#self-love #life

There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside them. The breakfast smell struck me like that. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#love #memories #forgiveness

My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life