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

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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

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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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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 Sorry
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 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
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
Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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Metaphorical Scientific
I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.

BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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Littles Successful
The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There’s a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.

BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There’s a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Eye Self
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
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

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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Holiness Waiting
Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.
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Hard Recognizing Times
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.

BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

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.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Sunday
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.

BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

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.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Determined Long
You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you’re into a different kind of relationship.

BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you’re into a different kind of relationship.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Community
I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I’ve relaxed enormously since then. I’m the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.
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Christian Decided
I’ve got a hold of something that won’t move. It’s a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day.

BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

I’ve got a hold of something that won’t move. It’s a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day.
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May Moving Next Day
God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.

BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.
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Seriously
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

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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