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.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORI don’t miss the ministry, because I’m completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t have time for a job that doesn’t leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
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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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I don’t miss the ministry, because I’m completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.
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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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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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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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I didn’t want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.
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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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It’s difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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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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