Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes About Jesus

Quotes about: Jesus

• Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God's will from their own. Temple police are always a bad sign. When chaplains start wearing guns and hanging out at the sheriff's office, watch out. Someone is about to have no king but Caesar

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jesus, Kings, Gun

• With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Religious, Jesus, Blessed

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jun 27, 2013

• When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jesus, Mean, Way

  Source: theotherjournal.com

• With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when He was gone. Instead, He gave them concrete things to do - specific ways of being together in their bodies - that would go on teaching them what they needed to know when He was no longer around to teach them Himself ... "Do this" He said - not believe this but do this - "in remembrance of me.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jesus, Teaching, Believe

• I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that's entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jesus, Self, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

• To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Christian, Jesus, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

• You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jesus, Lying, Heart

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.11, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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