Christ Quote by Barbara Brown Taylor

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I've relaxed enormously since then. I'm the one who gets…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when He was…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“I cannot say for sure when my reliable ideas about God began to slip away, but the big chest I used to keep them…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you,' he said, 'by the grace of God.' (Walter…

— Barbara Brown Taylor