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.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORWith so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.
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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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Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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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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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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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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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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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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