I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORThe 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.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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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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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.
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When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it’s losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.
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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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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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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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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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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 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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God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.
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It’s difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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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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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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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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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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