'Her concise, pithy and challenging prose is evidence that she is practicing what she preaches: that Christian pastors take more care with the words they use.'
- Kathleen Norris,
'If there is one book I would want every person of faith aware of the fragile contours of language to read, this is it. Never surrendering a good question for a mere answer, it reverences both the disclosures of silence and the potential of words to form, more than inform, the human soul. Of all Barbara Brown Taylor's wonderful books, this is the one for my desert island.'
- Mark Oakley,
'This book would...make an ideal basis for personal reflection during Advent or Lent'
- Revd Mark Brosnan, Magnet