Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes about Waiting

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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.

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.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Waiting, World, Holiness

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

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

Barbara Brown Taylor

People, Waiting, Bigs

Barbara Brown Taylor (1995). “Gospel Medicine”, p.153, Cowley Publications

So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Breathing, Aggravation, Waiting

Barbara Brown Taylor (1995). “Gospel Medicine”, p.153, Rowman & Littlefield

Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes about Waiting

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