God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORDay by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes…swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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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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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There’s a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.
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Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
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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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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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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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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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Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
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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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Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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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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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 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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