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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.

Barbara Brown Taylor

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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Church Grew Poet
To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.
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Feel Powerful Side Way
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
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Self Tradition World
Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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Kindness Names Use
When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, ‘Here, I guess, since this is where I am.’
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Feet Looks Want
Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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Metaphorical Science Scientific
That’s enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.
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Aunt Circles Godmother
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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Order Self Thinking
The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.
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Determined Life Long
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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Praying Quiet Way
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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Becoming Priest Want
I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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Leaving Littles Successful
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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Chance InterAction Offers
I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I’ll capitalize both of those R’s, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it’s what is most real.
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Mean People Real
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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Helping People Trying
I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Father Love Thinking

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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