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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.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Barbara Brown Taylor
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
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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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You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.
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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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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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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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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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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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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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When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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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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I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
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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'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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