Sue Monk Kidd Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Order, Plain Language, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.277, Penguin

• Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  August, Names, Two

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.140, Penguin

• The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother? The bother is because we have no other way of speaking about the Absolute. We need forms and images. Without them we have no way of relating to the Divine. Symbol and image create a universal spiritual language. It's the language the soul understands.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Spiritual, Soul, Needs

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