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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.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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
I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
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Sailboat Thinking Turns
I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
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Father Love Thinking
In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life
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Practice Thinking World
Humanity can be pretty stinky.
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Humanity Pretty Stinky
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
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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Everyday Reality Sky
The 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.
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Church Ideas People
I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I’d left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I’d left.
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Ministry People Sorry
Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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Belief Important Radical
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.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Behave Believe Politics
When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.
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Jesus Mean Way
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
Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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Kindness Names Use
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.
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Bigs People Waiting
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.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Blessed Jesus Religious

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