Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

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• The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is…
• Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds…
• 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…
• Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
• With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious…
• What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human…
• There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I…
• What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the…
• Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in…
• The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is.…
• If churches saw their mission in the same way, there is no telling what might happen. What if people were invited to come tell what…
• I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version,…
• I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are…
• All I am saying is that anyone can do this. Anyone can ask and anyone can bless, whether anyone has authorized you to do it…
• Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless…
• The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
• Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a…
• Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God's people.…
• As hard as I have tried to remember the exact moment when I fell in love with God, I cannot do it. My earliest memories…
• Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix.…

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