Barbara Brown Taylor

"Death reminds us that we are not in control, and that is a gift."

"Perseverance is the ability to love something more than you hate difficulty."

"Gratitude is the gateway to grace."

"Creativity is the evidence of our divine nature."

"Justice requires not just action but transformation of the heart."

"Patience teaches us that the world does not run on our schedule."

"Kindness is the most radical political act available to us."

"Strength is not the absence of vulnerability but the ability to be vulnerable."

"Fear is what we feel when we are about to grow."

"Power is most real when we use it to lift others up."

"Money is a kind of frozen possibility waiting to be thawed."

"Health is not the absence of disease but the presence of wholeness."

"Adventure is what happens when we say yes to the unknown."

"Imagination is the first step in creating a different future."

"Pay attention to what has your heart, because wherever your heart is, that is where God is also."

"The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the ripples stop or who says that they have stopped."

"Sometimes the most spiritual thing we can do is take a nap."

"There is no perfect way to be human."

"What if the church's job is not to convince people to come to God, but simply to point out how much God wants to come to them?"

"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."

"Holy envy is the feeling we get when we encounter people who love God more than we do."

"To practice resurrection is to wake up to the aliveness that is always present."

"God loves you not for what you accomplish but because you are."

"Being human means learning to live with ambiguity and mystery."

"The most subversive thing I can do is stay home and pay attention to my own life."

"Fear and love are not opposites; they are siblings."

"Grace is the experience of being loved without needing to be anyone other than who you are."

"Sabbath is about resting in God's love, not earning it through productivity."

"We are here to pay attention to the world and to each other."

"The spiritual life is not a life before, above, or beyond the human. It is the human life lived as deeply as possible."