Quotes by Barbara Brown Taylor
Barbara Brown Taylor (b. 1951) — Episkopale Priesterin, Autorin · Anglikanisch/Episkopal · USA
Barbara Brown Taylor (* 1951) ist eine US-amerikanische episkopale Priesterin, Theologin und Autorin, die als Gemeindepfarrerin und Hochschullehrerin in Georgia wirkte. Sie wurde durch Veröffentlichungen über Gotteserfahrungen im Alltag und den spirituellen Wert von Zweifel und Dunkelheit bekannt, stieß jedoch in konservativen Kreisen wegen ihres pluralistischen Religionsverständnisses auf Kritik. Für Bibelleser eröffnet ihr Ansatz Zugänge zu biblischen Texten, die menschliche Verwundbarkeit und Glaubensfragen jenseits dogmatischer Gewissheiten thematisieren.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Meaning & Identity, Suffering & the Question of God, Faith & Trust, Love, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Service & Love of Neighbour, Humility & Pride
Quotes by Barbara Brown Taylor
To say I love God but I do not pray much is like saying I love life but I do not breathe much.
Barbara Brown Taylor
I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
Barbara Brown Taylor
Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.
Barbara Brown Taylor
You come face-to-face with what really matters because it is too dark for most of your usual, shallowing distractions to work.
Barbara Brown Taylor
One of the hardest things to decide during a dark night is whether to surrender or resist. The choice often comes down to what you believe about God and how God acts.
Barbara Brown Taylor
I understand the choice I am being offered: do I want the kind of light that shines on things or the kind that shines from them?
Barbara Brown Taylor
It may be chopping wood and it may be running a corporation. Whatever it is, perhaps you will hold open the possibility that doing it is one way to learn what it means to become more fully human, as you press beyond being good to being good for something.
Barbara Brown Taylor
I am not sure that you have to believe in God to pronounce a blessing. It may be enough to see the thing for what it is and pronounce it good.
Barbara Brown Taylor
Our comfort or discomfort with the outer dark is a good barometer of how we feel about the inner kind.
Barbara Brown Taylor
How many other treasures have I walked right by because they did not meet my standards?
Barbara Brown Taylor
I cannot remember the last time I heard anyone use dark to describe something good.
Barbara Brown Taylor
You lose your job. Your lover leaves. The baby dies. At this level, the advanced practice of getting lost consists of consenting to be lost, since you have no other choice.
Barbara Brown Taylor
This is no small thing, in a culture so confused about the body that most Americans cannot separate the physical from the sexual.
Barbara Brown Taylor
Earlier in my life, I thought there was one particular thing I was supposed to do with my life. I thought that God had a purpose for me and my main job was to discover what it was.
Barbara Brown Taylor
To extend the same care to every human being that I wish for myself, to treat every human being as if he or she were Jesus in disguise.
Barbara Brown Taylor
I can try to avoid pain. I can deny pain. I can numb it and I can fight it. Or I can decide to engage pain when it comes to me, giving it my full attention so that it can teach me what I need to know about the Really Real.
Barbara Brown Taylor
The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do. What if the gravel of the parking lot looks as promising to God as the floorboards of a church?
Barbara Brown Taylor
Sources: religionnews.com, jonathanmerritt.com, christiansforsocialaction.org, medium.com
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