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  • Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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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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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - It’s difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them. Download This Image

    It’s difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.

    BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn’t felt comfortable or responsible doing that before. Download This Image

    The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn’t felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.

    BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see. Download This Image

    We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

    BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience. Download This Image

    I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.

    BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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 TAYLOR
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. Download This Image

    I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

    BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - 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 Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - 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.

    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.

    BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart. Download This Image

    The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.

    BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Brown Taylor Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR