Quotes by Barbara Brown Taylor

Barbara Brown Taylor

All I am saying is that anyone can do this. Anyone can ask and anyone can bless, whether anyone has authorized you to do it or not. All I am saying is that the world needs you to do this, because there is a real shortage of people willing to kneel wherever they are and recognize the holiness holding its sometimes bony, often tender, always life-giving hand above their heads. That we are able to bless one another at all is evidence that we have been blessed, whether we can remember when or not. That we are willing to bless one another is miracle enough to stagger the very stars.

Blessed

Real

Stars

As hard as I have tried to remember the exact moment when I fell in love with God, I cannot do it. My earliest memories are bathed in a kind of golden light that seemed to embrace me as surely as my mother’s arms. The divine presence was strongest outdoors, and most palpable when I was alone.

Light

Memories

Mother

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

Character

Church

Meaningful

Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God’s people. Our virtues are truth-telling, kindness, forgiveness and yes, even anger-as long as it is the anger that is part of true love-through which we move closer to one another and to the God who has shown us how it is done.

Christian

Kindness

Nice

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes…swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

Believe

Needs

Want

God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.

Doe

Lost

People

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

Might

People

Soul

I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I’d left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I’d left.

Ministry

People

Sorry

I can’t help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

Helping

People

Trying

I didn’t want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

Becoming

Priests

Want

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Aggravation

Aunt

Baptism

Becoming

Believe

Bigs

Blessed

Book

Boundaries

Breathing

Calling

Character

Children

Christian

Church

Circles

Community

Country

Dark

Darkness

Daughter

Determined

Differences

Different

Doe

Doors

Dream

Effort

Ego

Father

Feet

Followers

Giving

Godmother

Gun

Heart

Helping

Here I Am

Holiness

Holy

Home

Ignorance

Jesus

Jobs

Keys

Kindness

Kings

Knows

Letting Go

Life Is

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Quotes by Barbara Brown Taylor

Barbara Brown Taylor

As hard as I have tried to remember the exact moment when I fell in love with God, I cannot do it. My earliest memories are bathed in a kind of golden light that seemed to embrace me as surely as my mother’s arms. The divine presence was strongest outdoors, and most palpable when I was alone.

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes…swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I’d left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I’d left.

I can’t help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

I didn’t want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

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