"Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails."
Top & Most Famous Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
"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."
"When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it."
"Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me."
"I noted that it is sometimes hard to tell whether you are being killed or saved by the hands that turn your life upside down."
"Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can."
"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."
"I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own."
"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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