Quotes about Reflection
On day three, I decided that a power outage would make a great spiritual practice.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
All these years later, the way many of us are doing church is broken and we know it, even if we do not know what to do about it.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Reason can only work with the experience available to it. Wisdom atrophies if it is not walked on a regular basis.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction," wrote the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
In my case, the attention deficit was all mine. I had moved to the country in order to lie down in more blessed fields, to live closer to the Divine Presence that had held me all my life, but I had once again become so busy caring for the household of God that I neglected the One who had called me there. If I still had plenty of energy for the work, that was because feeding others was still my food. As long as I fed them, I did not feel my hunger pains.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
It is a great thing to see something familiar from an unfamiliar angle for the first time, even if it is because you have been worried and lost for longer than you would have liked.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
This is one of the reasons why I remain a devoted student of the Bible: because what it says is so often not what I have been taught it says, or what I think it says, or what I want it to say.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Come tell us what is saving your life now.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I have lived through parts of life that no one in her right mind would ever willingly have chosen, finding enough overlooked treasure in them to outweigh my projected wages in the life I had planned. These are just a few of the reasons that I have decided to stop fighting the prospect of getting lost and engage it as a spiritual practice instead.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can. If we want to hear and see more, even the parts that expose our scornfulness, we need partners from outside our ingroups to keep telling us how we sound.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Week after week, I was permitted to stand up in special clothes and talk while everyone else sat quietly and listened. Week after week, they heard the gospel filtered through my sensibilities. On Sunday mornings they sang the hymns I had chosen, and on Wednesday evenings they engaged the topics I had picked.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The meaning we give to what happens in our lives is our final, inviolable freedom.
— Barbara Brown Taylor