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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.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Barbara Brown Taylor
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
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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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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.
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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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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 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 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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