Barbara Brown Taylor

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“This is good, and all good things cast shadows.”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."

— Barbara Brown Taylor

It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“but I know that I have an easier time loving humankind than I do loving particular human beings.”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“We have just enough religion to make us hate one another,” Jonathan Swift once observed, “but not enough to make us love…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth,…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I found myself in a maze where I'd taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“According to a recent article in the New York Times, few parents expose their children to those works in the original these…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

As hard as I have tried to remember the exact moment when I fell in love with God, I cannot do it.…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“Even religious people are vulnerable to this longing. Those who belong to communities of faith have acquired a certain patience with what…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“People encounter God under shady oak trees, on riverbanks, at the tops of mountains, and in long stretches of barren wilderness. God…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“I would have to say that at least one of the things that almost killed me was becoming a professional holy person.…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“...I had spent hours talking with people who had trouble believing. For some, the issue was that they believed less than they…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“Or my eyes go back to seeing it that way. When I entered the cave hoping for a glimpse of celestial brightness,…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“If I had to name my disability, I would call it an unwillingness to fall. On the one hand, this is perfectly…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

— Barbara Brown Taylor