Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORKindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORWisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORI don’t miss the ministry, because I’m completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORI’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORThe only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORI decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I’ve relaxed enormously since then. I’m the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORThe beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There’s a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORYou can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you’re into a different kind of relationship.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORGod does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORThe value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORIn 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 TAYLORHaving 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 TAYLORWe are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORI miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORScience is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORSalvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR