Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I've relaxed enormously since then. I'm the one who gets… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when He was… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“I cannot say for sure when my reliable ideas about God began to slip away, but the big chest I used to keep them… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you,' he said, 'by the grace of God.' (Walter… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
