The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don’t even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORBeliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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I can’t help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.
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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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I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
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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
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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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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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I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
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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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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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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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The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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