Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one of my steps I can let go of my anxious need to know how tomorrow will look, or what will happen next month or next year. I can be fully where I am and pay attention to the many signs of God's love within me and around me.

I'm good where I am at this moment.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.

The only way to break the chains of fear and doubt is to know in your heart that God loves you-no matter what.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

Its all about finding the calm in the chaos.

The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

When I talk about the God who is with us, for us, and ahead of us, I'm talking about our facing that which most terrifies us about ourselves, embracing it and fearing it no longer, refusing to allow it to exist separate from the rest of our being, resting assured that we are loved and we belong and we are going to be just fine.

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

Acceptance is a small quiet room.

Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to speak even when my words are not received; free to act even when my actions are criticized, ridiculed, or considered useless.... I am convinced that I will truly be able to love the world when I fully believe that I am loved far beyond its boundaries.

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

And I really suspect that of all the things we think we want to know, the only thing we really want to know is that we are loved. And if Jesus means anything, he means that you are loved. I hope you know that. And I hope you stop worrying about all the stuff you don't know, because I don't think it amounts to a hill of beans.

I have need to busy my heart with quietude.

Rest and be thankful.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.