God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORHumanity can be pretty stinky.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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I’m a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like “Christian.”
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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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As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
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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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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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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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I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was…it wasn’t until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.
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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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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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Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.
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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 love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
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Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
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When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.
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Humanity can be pretty stinky.
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