Quotes related to Psalm 46:10
Busy? The word loses all meaning under the canopy of this sky.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Anything can become a spiritual practice once you are willing to approach it that way—once you let it bring you to your knees and show you what is real, including who you really are, who other people are, and how near God can be when you have lost your way.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Most of us do not live especially holy lives, after all. We spend most of our time sitting in traffic, paying bills, and being irritated with one another. Yet every week we are invited to stop all of that for one hour at least. We are invited to participate in a great drama that has been going on without us for thousands of years, and one that will go on as long as there is a single player left standing.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The last thing any of us needs is more information *about* God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I was so busy serving the Divine Presence that we never got any time alone anymore.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Or I can set a little altar, in the world or in my heart. I can stop what I am doing long enough to see where I am, who I am there with, and how awesome the place is.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Reverence requires a certain pace. It requires a willingness to take detours, even side trips, which are not part of the original plan.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
On day three, I decided that a power outage would make a great spiritual practice.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
When you live in God, your day begins when you lose yourself long enough for God to find you, and when God finds you, to lose yourself
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction," wrote the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Gradually I remembered what I had known all along, which is that church is not a stopping place but a starting place for discerning God's presence in this world. By offering people a place where they may engage the steady practice of listening to divine words and celebrating divine sacraments, church can help people gain a feel for how God shows up—not only in Holy Bibles and Holy Communion but also in near neighbors, mysterious strangers, sliced bread, and grocery store wine.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
— Henri Nouwen