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 TAYLOR
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
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Barbara Brown Taylor78 quotes“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.’”
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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 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.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara 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 instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I’m a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like “Christian.”
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I can’t help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor 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 children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don’t even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I’ll capitalize both of those R’s, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it’s what is most real.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn’t felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor 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 wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.
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Joshua BassettJoshua Bassett Anyone who abandons you is for teaching you how to stand up on your own two feet.
Laura CleggLaura Clegg A woman came from a man’s rib Not from his feet to be below him Not from his head to be above him But from his side to be equal to him From his heart to be loved by him.
K. MckeeK. Mckee Learn to love the sound of your feet walking away from people not meant for you.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur Then the light came and swept me off my feet.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I’ve practised for many years.
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