"We are born seekers, calling strange names into……" — Barbara Brown Taylor
"We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see."
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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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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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