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Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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Barbara Brown Taylor
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
Anglican Priest
Priest
Live
Human
Humans
Holiness
World
Whoever
Notice
Wherever
Waiting
Belief

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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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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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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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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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It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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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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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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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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Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
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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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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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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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As hard as I have tried to remember the exact moment when I fell in love with God, I cannot do it. My earliest memories are bathed in a kind of golden light that seemed to embrace me as surely as my mother's arms. The divine presence was strongest outdoors, and most palpable when I was alone.
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I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.
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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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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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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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