Daniel Taylor Quotes & Sayings

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away. — Daniel Taylor

We live in stories the way fish live in water. — Daniel Taylor

It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing. — Daniel Taylor

We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what will become of us. Whenever humans try to make sense of their experience, they create a story, and we use those stories to answer all the big questions of life. The stories come from everywhere
from family, church, school, and the culture at large. They so surround and inhabit us that we often don't recognize that they are stories at all, breathing them in and out as a fish breathes water. — Daniel Taylor

Reflection on the infinite seems to call, almost by definition, for infinite reflection. — Daniel Taylor

But there have been other press conferences that last less time than it takes to boil an egg. No doubt you will have heard about the famous 'Hairdryer', the shouting, his ferocity when the bee in his bonnet starts to buzz out of control. It's all true. He's every bit as frightening as is made out. One prick of his temper glands and he will be up, leaning forward, jutting out his forehead, indiscriminately machine-gunning swearwords at someone who has asked or written something he doesn't like. It's the eyes. Those rheumy, pale-green eyes. They stare you down. Your palms begin to sweat. You mouth feels dry, as if you have just swallowed a tablespoon of sawdust. You start to feel pathetically weak. The outburst might last only a few seconds but it always feels so much longer. And you realise you are half-bowing, staring at your feet. It's a degrading experience. — Daniel Taylor

We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure. — Daniel Taylor

Few things are as encouraging as the realization that things can be different and that we have a role in making them so. — Daniel Taylor

Salvation is to accept one's place in the story of faith whose theme is shalom. — Daniel Taylor

Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live. — Daniel Taylor

With anything that would make things better, believe as much as you can - then believe a little more. — Daniel Taylor

The least livable life is the one without coherence-nothing connects, nothing means anything. Stories make connections. They allow us to see our past, our present, and our future as interrelated and purposeful ... The stories we value most reassure us that life is worth the pain, that meaning is not an illusion, and that others share our experience with us. — Daniel Taylor

Stories make it possible for us to be human. — Daniel Taylor

If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven't, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory. — Daniel Taylor

This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good. — Daniel Taylor

A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces. — Daniel Taylor

Nothing should be of higher value to the reflective Christian in difficult circumstances than an unqualified desire to see truth triumph. One should wish passionately that it prevail, should love it more than one's own prestige or sense of security. — Daniel Taylor

Your legacy is the fragrance of your life that remains when you yourself are not present. — Daniel Taylor