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
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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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.
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I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
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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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The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
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Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices…. Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
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God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.
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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 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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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.
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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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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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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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Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
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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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I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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