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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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Barbara Brown Taylor
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
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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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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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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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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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Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.
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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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Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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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 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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Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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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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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
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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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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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