I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a… — 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… — 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… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship. — 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
God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
All I am saying is that anyone can do this. Anyone can ask and anyone can bless, whether anyone has authorized you… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I'll capitalize both of those R's, because God… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
If churches saw their mission in the same way, there is no telling what might happen. What if people were invited to… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
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 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
