Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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• People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Time
  • Political

• I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Man

• Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Doing
  • Look

• Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • God
  • Believe
  • Hope

• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.

  

  Warren R. Austin
  • Work
  • God
  • Spiritual

• Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • God
  • Free

• I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Religious
  • Thought
  • Place

• Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • More

• When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• 'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Believe
  • Why

• I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Freedom
  • Religious
  • Practice

• The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • God
  • Long

• Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • God
  • Men
  • Words

• You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word majnu means mad, mad for God. And laila is the symbol of God. Sufis think of God as the beloved; laila means the beloved. Everybody is a Majnu, and God is the beloved. And one has to open one’s heart, the eye of the heart.

  

  Rajneesh
  • God
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• God gave me my money.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • God
  • Money

• If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • God
  • Car

• I've had ups and downs, that's just the way football goes. You can't win them all. It's a matter of learning each week and taking everything in. I'm not going to make every play, I'm going to make some mistakes, but as long as I'm not making the costly ones that are going to hurt the team, I'll be all right.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Long
  • Team
  • Play

• Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Today
  • Black
  • Silence

• It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something. Now that from which generation proceeds is matter, and that to which it proceeds is form. So that, if matter or form were generated, there would be a matter for matter and a form for form, endlessly. Whence, there is generation only of the composite, properly speaking.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Science
  • Generation
  • Would Be

• If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • God
  • Religious
  • Trouble