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
I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and… — 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
I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding… — 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
I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for… — 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