Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

by Barbara Brown Taylor

God speaks to us in three places: in scripture, in our deepest selves, and in the voice of the stranger. THOMAS MERTON

The way to make a disciple is to be one. If your life does not speak, your footnotes will have limited impact.

no one enters the presence of God except by God’s grace. No church, no church doctrine, no individual gets to referee that. Where the Way of Jesus is concerned, he is the Decider.

“Love God in the person standing right in front of you,” the Jesus of my understanding says, “or forget the whole thing,

There is no such thing as religion. There are only religious people, who embody the scripts of their faiths as differently as dancers embody the steps of their dances.