Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.

Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

I want to get the message out that everybody can make a difference.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.

It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.