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 TAYLOREvery human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you’re into a different kind of relationship.
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I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
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We’re children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We’re also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.
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For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.
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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.
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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 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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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.
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Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.
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Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes…swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
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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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When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.
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To be fully human is perhaps why I’m Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.
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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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