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.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORThe value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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I found myself in a maze where I’d taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn’t doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.
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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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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 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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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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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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It’s difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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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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Most of us like thinking we are God’s only children…At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
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Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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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 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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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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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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