Krista Tippett

“God delights in beauty, Islam teaches at its core, and is beauty. Beauty is in creation, not destruction, and in balance. It…

— Krista Tippett

“Spirituality doesn’t look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to…

— Krista Tippett

“But what we did is we studied our town. We did an inventory of all of the things that were present there—farms…

— Krista Tippett

“...'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware…

— Krista Tippett

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we…

— Krista Tippett

“You have your own stories, the dramatic and more ordinary moments where what has gone wrong becomes an opening to more of…

— Krista Tippett

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

— Krista Tippett

“Resilience is a successor to mere progress, a companion to sustainability.”

— Krista Tippett

“It’s a collection of pointers that treat the margins as seriously as the noisy center. For change has always happened in the…

— Krista Tippett

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world…

— Krista Tippett

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down…

— Krista Tippett

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the…

— Krista Tippett

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

— Krista Tippett

If God is God, we can't be afraid of what we can learn.

— Krista Tippett

“Hope is an orientation, an insistence on wresting wisdom and joy from the endlessly fickle fabric of space and time.”

— Krista Tippett

“More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it…

— Krista Tippett

“More to the point: the growing universe of the Nones—the new nonreligious—is one of the most spiritually vibrant and provocative spaces in…

— Krista Tippett

“Generous listening is powered by curiosity, a virtue we can invite and nurture in ourselves to render it instinctive. It involves a…

— Krista Tippett

One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the…

— Krista Tippett

“Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to…

— Krista Tippett

If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.

— Krista Tippett

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if…

— Krista Tippett

“I’m consciously shedding the assumption that a skeptical point of view is the most intellectually credible. Intellect does not function in opposition…

— Krista Tippett

My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a…

— Krista Tippett

“We have to be educated by the other. My heart cannot be educated by myself. It can only come out of a…

— Krista Tippett