Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
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Barbara Brown Taylor78 quotes“Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.”
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To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor 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. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it’s losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor 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
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor 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.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor 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 again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara 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 I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul’s address
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor It’s difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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