Quotes about Spirituality
In 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 Taylor
Stop for one whole day every week, and you will remember what it means to be created in the image of God, who rested on the seventh day not from weariness but from complete freedom. The clear promise is that those who rest like God find themselves free like God, no longer slaves to the thousand compulsions that send others rushing toward their graves.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The last thing any of us needs is more information *about* God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
So of course when it came time to decide what to do with my life, I decided to go to seminary. What else do you do when you are in love with God?
— 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
A priest is a priest, no matter where she happens to be. Her job is to recognize the holiness in things and hold them up to God. Her job is to speak in ways that help other people recognize the holiness in things too.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I was so busy serving the Divine Presence that we never got any time alone anymore.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I am not sure whether the virtue of holy envy requires holy humility or creates it, but the two are clearly related. After you have allowed the other to define herself, listening carefully to all the ways in which she is not you, it is hard to overlook the fact that you and she are made of the same basic material. You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it. So welcome to your own priesthood, practiced at the altar of your own life. The good news is that you have everything you need to begin.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Matter matters to God. The most ordinary things are drenched in divine possibility. Pronouncing blessings upon them is the least we can do.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Because they were not old enough to serve on committees or wrangle over the order of worship, the children often had a better grasp of what church was all about than the rest of us did.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
In Jesus, Christians believe, everyone gets a good look at what it means to be both fully human and fully divine—not half and half, as if he walked around with a dotted line down his middle, but fully both, all the time. His full humanity was on full display as he taught, healed, fed, and freed people, just as it was when he honored the poor, defied the powerful, and turned the institutional tables along with his own cheek.
— Barbara Brown Taylor