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.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
When 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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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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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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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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The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.
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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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It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.
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Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.
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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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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.
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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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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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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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