Sue Monk Kidd Quotes about Pain

What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has

What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.

Sue Monk Kidd

Pain, Waiting, Endurance

To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

Sue Monk Kidd

Fashion, Pain, Heart

Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.

Sue Monk Kidd

Pain, Honesty, Joy

Sue Monk Kidd (1987). “God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved”, HarperCollins Publishers

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

Sue Monk Kidd

Pain, Heart, Events

Sue Monk Kidd (2014). “The Invention of Wings: With Notes”, p.369, Penguin