Quotes about Religion
It just seems helpful to admit that Christianity is as complicated and conflicted as any other religion, with groups of followers who can believe in the unity of their faith even as they refuse Communion to one another.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Somewhere along the line we bought—or were sold—the idea that God is chiefly interested in religion. We believed that God's home was
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Here is a law as reliable as gravity: The degree to which we believe our faith is makes us human is the same degree with which we will question the humanity of those who do not share our faith.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Here is a law as reliable as gravity: the degree to which we believe our faith is what makes us human is the same degree to which we will question the humanity of those who do not share our faith.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor. That self-canceling feature of my religion is one of the things I like best about it. Jesus never commanded me to love my religion.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Another favorite hymn mourns Israel's lonely exile from the Son of God. Another years for a future in which every knee will bow to Jesus. Another urges Christian soldiers onward, marching as to war. When I imagined singing it with a Muslim or Hindu student sitting next to me, my voice dried up. It was a song for insiders, not outsiders. If I had learned anything from going on all of those class field trips, it was how religious language sounds to outsiders, and how much that matters.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
As important as it is to mark the places where we meet God, I worry about what happens when we build a house for God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Is Christian faith primarily about being Christian or becoming truly human?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Greenspan calls this "spiritual bypassing"—using religion to dodge the dark emotions instead of letting it lead us to embrace those dark angels as the best, most demanding spiritual teachers we may ever know.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Reason is the enemy of faith.
— Martin Luther
Most Christians would not recognize Mormonism as part of the Christian faith.
— Franklin Graham
God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.
— Ezra Taft Benson