Firstlight Quotes

“In the end, the only monument that matters may be the work of love we carve into the lives around us.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd

“People with profound human needs and suffering do not, as I have half-imagined and half-wished, travel in a boat separate from mine. In ways I have scarcely appreciated, we are all in the same boat, and I can't be unavailable to their suffering without jeopardizing my own soul.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd

“Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd

“Genuine compassion cannot be imposed from without. It doesn't happen simply by hearing a sermon on love, or being sent on a loving mission. How often have we set out to love to world—or even more difficult, to love some tiresome, undeserving, mule-headed person on our street—and given up, feeling exasperated, unappreciated, used, tired, burned out, or just plain cynical? The point is, you don't arbitrarily make up your mind to be compassionate so much as you choose to follow a journey that transforms your heart into a compassionate space.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd

“It occurs to me that perhaps the memories most likely to resonate do not fall happenstance into our lives. They are created.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd