Our waiting is not nothing. It is something — a very big something — because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORHumanity can be pretty stinky.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.
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Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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With 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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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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I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
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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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Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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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.
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I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
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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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I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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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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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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Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
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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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