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Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

Barbara Brown Taylor

There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul’s address
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Clothes Drop Important Mirrors Spiritual
It’s difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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Conflict Difficult Tagged
I can’t help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.
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Helping People Trying
There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that’s what led to my downward spin.
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Praying Quiet Way
Humanity can be pretty stinky.
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Humanity Pretty Stinky
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
The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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Church Grew Poet
Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
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Doors Keys Locks
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 have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
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Holy Ignorance Religious
I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Dark Light Needs
To be fully human is perhaps why I’m Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.
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Christian Jesus Way
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
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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Church Community Knows
If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I’ve just quit being religious, because that’s what got me into such deep trouble.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Quitting Religious Trouble
Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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Kindness Names Use

Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

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