There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward… — 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
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
The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the… — 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
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
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
With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when… — 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
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
The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are… — 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
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
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
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