I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLORScience is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
More Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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We’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.
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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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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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Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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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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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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Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.
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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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I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was…it wasn’t until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.
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When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it’s losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.
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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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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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