As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
Barbara Brown TaylorThere comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, โHere I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soulโs address
Barbara Brown TaylorThe beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.
Barbara Brown Taylor