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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.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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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Blessed Jesus Religious
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
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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Self Tradition World
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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Calling Darkness Names
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
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Christian Inspirational Religious
I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
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Order Self Thinking
I don’t have time for a job that doesn’t leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
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Jobs Praying Quiet
It’s difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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Conflict Difficult Tagged
Humanity can be pretty stinky.
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Humanity Pretty Stinky
I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.
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Ideas Jobs Thinking
To be fully human is perhaps why I’m Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.
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Christian Jesus Way
The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don’t know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I’ve been in danger of losing.
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Community Losing Pieces
The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.
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Effort Heart Sky
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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Hard Recognizing Thinking Times
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
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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Aunt Circles Godmother

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