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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.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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Barbara Brown Taylor
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
Anglican Priest
Priest
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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'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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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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There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.
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I'm in a mainline church, I'm very aware, especially as I move through community churches and new-start churches that are making real efforts not to associate themselves with traditional denominations - very often they have no history. They have no institutional memory.
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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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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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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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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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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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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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Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
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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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Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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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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The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn't felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.
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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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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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I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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