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.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORWhen I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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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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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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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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I found myself in a maze where I’d taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn’t doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.
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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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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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I’ve got a hold of something that won’t move. It’s a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day.
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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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The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
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For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.
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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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Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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Humanity can be pretty stinky.
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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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I don’t miss the ministry, because I’m completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.
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