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Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

Barbara 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 TAYLOR

Church Ideas People
I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.
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might People Soul
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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Chance InterAction Offers
Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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Metaphorical Science Scientific
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
Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.
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Jobs Meaningful Opportunity
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 think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
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Sailboat Thinking Turns
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.
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Blessed Jesus Religious
Most of us like thinking we are God’s only children…At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
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Baptism Children Thinking
Humanity can be pretty stinky.
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Humanity Pretty Stinky
I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was…it wasn’t until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.
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Becoming Faithful might
Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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Metaphorical Science Scientific
I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I’d left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I’d left.
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Ministry People Sorry
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 TAYLOR

Enough Lucky Prayer
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.
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Quitting Religious Trouble

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

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