Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes About Belief

• Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

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  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

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  Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motley crew, distinguished not only by our inability to explain ourselves to those who are more certain of their beliefs than we are but in many cases by our distance from the centers of our faith communities as well.

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  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.224, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• 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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