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The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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Belief Important Radical
I’ve got a hold of something that won’t move. It’s a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day.
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May Moving Next Day
You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you’re into a different kind of relationship.
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Community Different People
Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.
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Character Church Meaningful
The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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Church Grew Poet
I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.
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Home Nursing People
To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.
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Feel Powerful Side Way
I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
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Home Real Sunday
We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.
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Calling Darkness Names
I don’t miss the ministry, because I’m completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.
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Groups Missing People
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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Chance InterAction Offers
I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
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Father Love Thinking
Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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Kindness Names Use
The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.
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Church Ideas People
The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don’t even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child.
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Children Grandmother Love You
I’m a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like “Christian.”
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Christian Followers Mean

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.

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