With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORThe only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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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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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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Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
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Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
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Our waiting is not nothing. It is something — a very big something — because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.
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To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.
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Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I’ll capitalize both of those R’s, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it’s what is most real.
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When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it’s losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.
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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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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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