Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
"Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be."
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"I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place."
"Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me."
"If I have any expertise, it is in the realm of spiritual darkness: fear of the unknown, familiarity with divine absence, mistrust of conventional wisdom, suspicion of religious comforters, keen awareness of the limits of all language about God and at the same time shame over my inability to speak of God without a thousand qualifiers, doubt about the health of my soul, and barely suppressed contempt for those who have no such qualms. These are the areas of my proficiency."
"I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message."
"If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet?"
"If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet? As difficult as it is to accept, I believe that his death on the cross reveals the God who suffers for love instead of punishing the unloving, the God who lays down his life for his friends."
"It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least."
"The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed."
"Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God."
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