I'm in a mainline church, I'm very aware, especially as I move through community churches and new-start churches that are making real… — 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
The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition,… — 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
