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 TAYLORThe 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.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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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 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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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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Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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I’m a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like “Christian.”
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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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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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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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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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I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
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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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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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Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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