Top 500 Sue Monk Kidd Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

52. “We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn’t that a shame we don’t have many more ways to say it?”

— Sue Monk Kidd

53. “It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

54. “I’ve always been a journal-keeper. I’ve always tried to write about how I’m experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

55. “When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we’re going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don’t come suddenly.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

56. “Knowing can be a curse on a person’s life. I’d traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn’t know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

57. “You can’t stop your heart from loving, really – it’s like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.”

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58. “We must err, do so on the side of audacity.”

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59. “I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?”

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60. “That’s the sacred intent of life, of God – to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.”

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61. “Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.”

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62. “I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. Was there ever a more galling verse in the Bible?”

— Sue Monk Kidd

63. “Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

64. “When women bond together in a community in such a way that “sisterhood” is created, it gives them an accepting and intimate forum to tell their stories and have them heard and validated by others. The community not only helps to heal their circumstance, but encourages them to grow into their larger destiny.”

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65. “I never know how to give advice to a writer because there’s so much you could say, and it’s hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

66. “I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

67. “When we stop perceiving, assuming, and theorizing from the top, the dominant view, and instead go to the bottom of the social pyramid and identify with those who are oppressed and disenfranchised, a whole new way of relating opens up. Until we look from the bottom up we have seen nothing.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

68. “The queen, for the most part, is the unifying force of the community, if she removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

69. “I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don’t even know it.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

70. “People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.”

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71. “We can’t think of changing our skin color. Change the world – that’s how we gotta think.”

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72. “Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now.”

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73. “Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

74. “Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

75. “Egg laying is the main thing, Lily. She’s the mother of every bee in the hive, and they all depend on her to keep it going. I don’t care what their job is – they know the queen is their mother. She’s the mother of thousands.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

76. “The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.”

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77. “I live in a hive of darkness, and you are my mother, I told her. You are the mother of thousands.”

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78. “The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn’t.”

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79. “Most people don’t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about.”

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80. “I don’t hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we’ve arranged life to fall in place.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

81. “People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It’s that hard.”

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82. “When you’re waiting, you’re not doing nothing. You’re doing the most important something there is. You’re allowing your soul to grow up. If you can’t be still and wait, you can’t become what God created you to be.”

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83. “You don’t have to place your hand on Mary’s heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

84. “Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.”

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85. “T. Ray said ‘Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?’ The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare’s first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

86. “It was the first time I’d ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.”

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87. “Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

88. “It takes honeybee workers ten million foraging trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey. – Bees of the World.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

89. “In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

90. “Later I would read Ursula K. Le Guin’s comment: “I am a slow unlearner. But I love my unteachers.”

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91. “Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it’s social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

92. “Up until then I’d thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan.”

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93. “Lord our God, hear my prayer, the prayer of my heart. Bless the largeness inside me, no matter how I fear it. Bless my reed pens and my inks. Bless the words I write. May they be beautiful in your sight. May they be visible to eyes not yet born. When I am dust, sing these words over my bones: she was a voice.”

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94. “Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.”

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95. “There’s no pain on earth that doesn’t crave a benevolent witness.”

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96. “There is nothing perfect,′ August said from the doorway. ‘There is only life.”

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97. “How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?”

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98. “My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it’s the other way round.”

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99. “If you must err, do so on the side of audacity. That was the little slogan I’d devised for myself.”

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100. “There’s a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of ‘soul force’ – something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it’s writing a check or digging a well.”

— Sue Monk Kidd