“...he felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their ...” — Sue Monk Kidd Quote

“...he felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him.”

“Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.”

“I said, "Where's all that delivering God's supposed to do?”

“Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.”

“People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.”

“There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.”

“Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”

“A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”

“If you knew how quickly people would forget you after your death, you would not seek in your life to please anyone but God.”

“It's the small things we do in life that typically become the greatest.”

“This may sound ironic, but I don't believe in miracles. Or, even if they do exist, that I'm worthy of one. I've prayed every day since I found out that God would take me into His house before another sunrise. But I guess sometimes God's greatest gift is an unanswered prayer. If He had taken me, these creatures would not have found sanctuary, even if it is perhaps just for a day. Eliot would have been dead on some cold metal table, and you, my friend... would have been denied the opportunity to pull my head out of my ass.”