"It does seem to me that at least……" — Barbara Brown Taylor
"It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least."
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35 Quotes by Barbara Brown Taylor
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There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the…
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Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you…
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The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since…
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