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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

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Barbara Brown Taylor
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
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It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.
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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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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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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.
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Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices.... Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
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I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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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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I'm in a mainline church, I'm very aware, especially as I move through community churches and new-start churches that are making real efforts not to associate themselves with traditional denominations - very often they have no history. They have no institutional memory.
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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 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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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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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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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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I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I'll capitalize both of those R's, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it's what is most real.
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I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.
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Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.
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The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.
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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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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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