Top 59 Krista Tippett Quotes
#1. Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.
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#2. How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.
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#3. In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
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#4. Really feeling your body move and the life inside of yourself is critical. Western culture is astoundingly disembodied and uniquely so.
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#5. Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.
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#6. Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.
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#7. The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are.
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#8. I teach in a university, and I think about where's the place in that kind of educational institution for embodied knowledge? And how do we cultivate that? And how do we trust it? But
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#9. I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.
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#10. What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.
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#11. If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.
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#12. Race, john powell says, is like gravity, experienced by all, understood by few.
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#14. Silence is an endangered quantity in our time ... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality - a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.
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#15. To be alive is by definition messy, always leaning towards disorder and surprise. How
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#16. beginners when it came to inner landscapes of beauty that would anchor and nourish them on the inside, beyond work, in the intimate spaces that in the end define us all.
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#17. I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself.
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#18. One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery and intellect. They are somehow mysteriously akin to each other.
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#19. You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
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#20. I learned to be wary that summer of a pious approach to life that saw good intentions and righteous prayer as substitutes for planning and pragmatic action.
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#21. I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
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#22. Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
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#23. For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe.
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#24. More to the point: the growing universe of the Nones - the new nonreligious - is one of the most spiritually vibrant and provocative spaces in modern life. It is not a world in which spiritual life is absent. It is a world that resists religious excesses and shallows.
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#25. Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.
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#26. You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.
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#27. The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.
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#28. The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.
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#29. Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others.
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#30. For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.
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#31. Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen.
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#32. I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.
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#33. Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it's about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.
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#34. In life, in religion, in science, this I believe: any conviction worth its salt has chosen to cohabit with a piece of mystery, and that mystery is at the essence of the vitality and growth of the thing. The
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#35. [Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.
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#36. Kindness is the stuff of moments, but it can be absolutely transformative in moments. Beautiful lives are transformative in moments. But we have to train ourselves to look for them.
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#37. Maybe this is another way to think about original sin - the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence to it.
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#38. The thing about the raw materials of the life of the spirit is that they are always changing. What you see in the past is dependent on what you are able to see now. I've
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#40. The interesting and challenging thing about this moment is that we know the old forms aren't working. But we can't yet see what the new forms will be. We are making them up in "real time"; we're even reimagining time.
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#41. Resilience is a successor to mere progress, a companion to sustainability.
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#42. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory. It's a renewable resource for moving through life as it is, not as we wish it to be. I
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#43. Taking in the good, whenever and wherever we find it, gives us new eyes for seeing and living.
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#44. 'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the limitations of our own vision and of our own capacity for misunderstanding and self-deception.
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#45. Spiritual life is a way of dwelling with perplexity - taking it seriously, searching for its purpose as well as its perils, its beauty as well as its ravages. In
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#46. More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty.
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#47. Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I've lived, not just with my questions.
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#48. If God is God, we can't be afraid of what we can learn.
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#49. My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.
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#50. I come to understand that for most of my life, when I was looking for love, I was looking to be loved. In this, I am a prism of my world. I am a novice at love in all its fullness, a beginner.
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#51. The incredible thing about children is they're unified in their body, whereas we can be very disunified. We can say one thing and feel another. And
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#52. As the era of care-less food comes to a reckoning, we're relearning the astonishingly elemental delight in growing what we eat and preparing it as though it matters. It's
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#53. Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.
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#54. Truth can be told in an instant, forgiveness can be offered spontaneously, but reconciliation is the work of lifetimes and generations.
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#55. Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.
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#57. I'm also thinking a lot lately that Descartes has so much to answer for - his idea, "I think therefore I am." Western culture is so built around this overly cerebral disembodied way we've created all of our institutions, and we're impoverished by it. We're so much smaller for it. So
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#58. Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.
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#59. Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.
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