Top 21 Quotes by Krista Tippett

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.

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.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

If God is God, we can't be afraid of what we can learn.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

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.

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.

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.

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.