Krista Tippett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Krista Tippett

#Wise #Exercise #Doe
You are not going to be perfect every day. Itâ€™s about turning up the next day and doing it again.
-- Krista Tippett

#Perfect #Next
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.
-- Krista Tippett

#Work #Compassion #Vocabulary
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.
-- Krista Tippett

#Our World #Names #Voice
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.
-- Krista Tippett

#God #Religious #Compassion
If we cant face our losses, we cant 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.
-- Krista Tippett

#Cutting #Loss #People
Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.
-- Krista Tippett

#Buddhist #Hurt #Real
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.
-- Krista Tippett

#School #Europe #Perspective
I dont 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.
-- Krista Tippett

#Thinking #Two Sides #Ideas
If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.
-- Krista Tippett
Fear usually looks like anger.
-- Krista Tippett

#Looks
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.
-- Krista Tippett

#Home #Essentials #Gone
Compassion is a spiritual technology.
-- Krista Tippett

#Spiritual #Peace #Technology
The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.
-- Krista Tippett

#World
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.
-- Krista Tippett

#Division #Weapons #Chemistry
Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant realityâ€”a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.
-- Krista Tippett

#Reality #Silence #Doe
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.
-- Krista Tippett

#Peace #Technology #Race
Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.
-- Krista Tippett

#Calm #Toddler #Structure
Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space,
-- Krista Tippett

#Space #Interviews #Virtue
What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.
-- Krista Tippett

#Compassion #Rising #Problem
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; itâ€™s more of a cerebral ascent.
-- Krista Tippett

#Tolerance #Ascent #Virtue
Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.
-- Krista Tippett

#Kindness #Everyday #Virtue
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
-- Krista Tippett

#Art #Way #Language
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
-- Krista Tippett

#Doctrine #Opinion #Persons

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