"Earth is so thick with divine possibility that……" — Barbara Brown Taylor
"Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars."
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35 Quotes by Barbara Brown Taylor
Barbara Brown Taylor has 35 quotes on this site.
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The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what…
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Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what…
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No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the…
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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and…
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What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from…
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There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the…
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What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one…
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Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you…
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The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since…
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If churches saw their mission in the same way, there is no telling what might happen. What if people were…
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I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had…
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More Altars Quotes
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one of 44 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes…
— William Hazlitt
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace…
— Peter Chrysologus
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If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be…
— David Brewster
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for…
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of…
— Adolf Hitler
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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
— Alexander Pope
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Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest,…
— Myrtle Reed
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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;…
— Edmund Burke
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The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across…
— Wess Stafford
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The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling…
— Luther Standing Bear
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