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Krista Tippett
American
Journalist
Born:
Nov 9
,
1960
Experience
Life
People
Something
Think
You
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Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.
Krista Tippett
Life
Depression
You
Experience
Problems
Not Perfect
Spirituality
Important
Thinking
Enriching
Way
Kinds
Spiritually
Perfect
Could
Had
Part
Also
Make
Important Part
Up
Grew
Wanting
Acknowledge
Flaws
Really
Theology
Now
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
Wisdom
Alone
Wise
Intelligence
Action
Must
Exercise
Does
Go
Get
Human
Where
Want
Capacities
Us
Even
Creature
Necessarily
Need
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.
Krista Tippett
Faith
You
People
Down
Birthright
Possible
Find
Religious
Religious People
Mystery
Narrow
Answers
Often
Theology
Grasping
Things
Shut
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.
Krista Tippett
Think
Sides
Idea
Most
Accept
Within
Issue
Any
Middle
Middle Ground
Us
Ground
Found
Two
What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.
Krista Tippett
Problems
Compassion
Virtue
Our
Liberating
Rising
Ultimate
Sources
Realize
Richest
Thing
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.
Krista Tippett
Religion
You
Experience
People
Own
Believe
Religious
Having
Having Children
Never
Leave
Were
Question
Childhood
Behind
Children
Urgency
Your
Who
Many
Brings
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
Perspective
Somebody
Journalist
Out
Divinity
Had
Also
Educated
Came
Been
Then
Who
Europe
Now
Early
Early 1990s
I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
Krista Tippett
Life
Experience
Big
Real Life
Say
Between
Like
Ideas
Tracing
Real
Big Ideas
Human
Human Experience
Theology
Intersection
Fear usually looks like anger.
Krista Tippett
Anger
Fear
Like
Looks
You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.
Krista Tippett
Day
You
Every Day
Every
About
Perfect
Doing
Up
Going
Again
Turning
Next
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