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Life Quotes by Barbara Brown Taylor
- No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the…
- 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…
- There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I…
- 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.…
- I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version,…
- All I am saying is that anyone can do this. Anyone can ask and anyone can bless, whether anyone has authorized you to do it…
- 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…
- The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
- The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we…
- I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over…
- I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
- In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle