No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger—these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of… — 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 gone. Instead, He gave them concrete things to do - specific ways of being together in their bodies - that would go on teaching them what they needed to know when He was no longer around… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share
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 in is smaller than a shoebox now. Most of the time, I feel so ashamed about this that I do not own up to it unless someone else mentions it first. Then we find a quiet… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share
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
