Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

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.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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• Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • God
  • Result
  • Actions

• Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opinion
  • Public Opinion

• During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.

  

  Gail Collins
  • God
  • Done
  • War

• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Always

• Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Giving
  • Honesty

• God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• Each one prays to God according to his own light.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Light

• A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Good
  • God
  • Catholic

• What God hath wrought?

  

  Samuel Morse
  • God
  • Wrought
  • God Hath

• We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Good
  • God
  • Respect

• There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Technology
  • Opinion
  • Emotional

• Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • God
  • Goals
  • Beyond

• 'I’m a terrible salesman,' he finally said. 'I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Truth

• There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• They say that the truth will set you freeBut then again, so will a lie...It depends if you're trying to get to the promised landOr if you're just trying to get by.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Trying
  • Truth

• Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • God
  • Book
  • Friends

• If you start lifting weights, you will expect to put weight on, as muscle is heavier than fat. But you have to look more at your body shape - you will get heavier - but you might get smaller and heavier at the same time, which is fine. And it doesn't really matter what you weigh as long as you are happy with your shape and size!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• Customers don't care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Care
  • Build
  • Customers

• New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • People

• I believe that having a family in the dressing room is very important when it comes to winning trophies.

  

  Alexis Sanchez
  • Family
  • Winning
  • Trophies

• 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.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • God
  • Truth
  • Opinion