Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORWe’re children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We’re also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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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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Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices…. Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
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I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that’s entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.
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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 think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
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Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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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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Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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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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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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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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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 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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You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.
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We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.
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