“The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child.” WayChildrenDoeLove YouLike YouTreatsOur ChildrenAgreeNeighborGreat ThingsYour ChildrenGrandmotherCivilityYour GrandmotherLove Your Neighbor Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“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.” LittlesTwoSelfWholeJesusNeighborCommandGod LoveTwo ThingsLive BySimplestLeaving MeConsumingLittle Time Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.” WellsEnoughNeighborCirclesMinistryVocationAuntGodmother Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.” IfsWantMeanSelfEgoFindingsLosingNeighborFinding Myself Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending their neighbor. 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. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.” PeopleBelieveHumansBookHuman BeingsGraceRiskConflictPagesMarkAimSolveNeighborBehaveInkCalvaryGrandson Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.” IfsWorldHumansSelfHelpingUseSpiritualHuman BeingsSpringPrisonNeighborHardestEncountersConvinceSpiritual Work Book:An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith Source: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
