There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“...new life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“...salvation is not something that happens only at the end of a person's life. Salvation happens every time someone with a key… — 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
You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“Committing myself to the task of becoming fully human is saving my life now...to become fully human is something extra, a conscious… — 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
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
