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 TAYLOR
I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that’s entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
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The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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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.
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I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.
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I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
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I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.
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