Barbara Brown Taylor on holiness
Barbara Brown Taylor78 quotes“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.”
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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 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.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, ‘Here, I guess, since this is where I am.’
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.
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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
Alan ChambersAlan Chambers I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
Alan ChambersAlan Chambers Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.
Adrian RogersAdrian Rogers Not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment.
Adoniram Judson GordonAdoniram Judson Gordon This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition.Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.
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