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Barbara Brown Taylor78 quotes“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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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.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I’ve relaxed enormously since then. I’m the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices…. Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that’s entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor We’re children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We’re also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you’re into a different kind of relationship.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor 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.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Humanity can be pretty stinky.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.
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Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
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