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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.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Barbara Brown Taylor
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
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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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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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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 leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.
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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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It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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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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