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 TAYLORThere 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
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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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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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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I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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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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I’m a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like “Christian.”
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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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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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Humanity can be pretty stinky.
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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 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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Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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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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Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
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I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
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