Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORMost 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.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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I don’t have time for a job that doesn’t leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
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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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I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.
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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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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.
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When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.
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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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Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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I didn’t want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.
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The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don’t know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I’ve been in danger of losing.
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It’s difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life
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The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.
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Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
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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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