"Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is……" — Barbara Brown Taylor
"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 and when it fails."
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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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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 have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at…
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
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War is what happens when language fails.
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
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I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel,…
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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
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High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when…
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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