Susan Schneider

“1. When trying to understand another religion, you should ask the adherents of the religion and not its enemies.
2. Don't compare your best to their worst.
3. Leave room for holy envy.

(Krister Stendahl's rules of religious understanding)”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

“To be a priest is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor

“It was when your partner left you that you remembered what else you meant to do in your life beyond staying together.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

“This is worrisome, not only because he is reading a translation from the original Hebrew or Greek that has already involved a great deal of interpretation, but also because it is such a short distance between believing you possess an error-free message from God and believing that you are an error-free messenger of God.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others