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 Jesus Copy Share Image
I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian." — Barbara Brown Taylor Christ Copy Share Image
God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost. — 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 Christian Copy Share Image
I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray. — Barbara Brown Taylor Jobs Copy Share Image
Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me. — Barbara Brown Taylor Belief Copy Share Image
“Busy? The word loses all meaning under the canopy of this sky.” — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent. — Barbara Brown Taylor Church Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice… — Barbara Brown Taylor Holiness Copy Share Image
Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs,… — 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… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life… — Barbara Brown Taylor Abundance 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
We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to… — Barbara Brown Taylor Birth Copy Share Image
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars. — Barbara Brown Taylor Altars 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 Church Copy Share Image
Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always… — Barbara Brown Taylor Anarchy Copy Share Image
“According to a recent article in the New York Times, few parents expose their children to those works in the original these… — Barbara Brown Taylor Children Copy Share Image
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same… — Barbara Brown Taylor Belief 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
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
When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth,… — Barbara Brown Taylor Christianity Copy Share Image
The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone… — Barbara Brown Taylor Aloofness Copy Share Image
“...I had spent hours talking with people who had trouble believing. For some, the issue was that they believed less than they… — Barbara Brown Taylor Beyond belief Copy Share Image
So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We… — Barbara Brown Taylor Aggravation Copy Share Image
“In a quip that makes the rounds, Jesus preached the coming of the kingdom, but it was the church that came. All… — Barbara Brown Taylor God is faithful Copy Share Image
“I know plenty of people who find God most reliably in books, in buildings, and even in other people. I have found… — Barbara Brown Taylor Books 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… — Barbara Brown Taylor Faith 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
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 Attention 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
I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat. — Barbara Brown Taylor Fitness Copy Share Image
Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead. — 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 Company Copy Share Image
I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“our comfort or discomfort with the outer dark is a good barometer of how we feel about the inner kind.” — Barbara Brown Taylor Comfort Copy Share Image
It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know… — 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 Desert Copy Share Image
“We have just enough religion to make us hate one another,” Jonathan Swift once observed, “but not enough to make us love… — Barbara Brown Taylor Hate Copy Share Image
