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God Quotes by 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 is…
- What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human…
- What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the…
- The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is.…
- If churches saw their mission in the same way, there is no telling what might happen. What if people were invited to come tell what…
- Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless…
- Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God's people.…
- As hard as I have tried to remember the exact moment when I fell in love with God, I cannot do it. My earliest memories…
- Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix.…
- As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
- Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I…
- I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human…
- Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
- God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.
- Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi