Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated. — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“God delights in beauty, Islam teaches at its core, and is beauty. Beauty is in creation, not destruction, and in balance. It is in… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“Spirituality doesn’t look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“But what we did is we studied our town. We did an inventory of all of the things that were present there—farms and marshes… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“...'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“You have your own stories, the dramatic and more ordinary moments where what has gone wrong becomes an opening to more of yourself and… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience. — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“Resilience is a successor to mere progress, a companion to sustainability.” — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“It’s a collection of pointers that treat the margins as seriously as the noisy center. For change has always happened in the margins, across… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
