"Once I gave up the hunt for villains,……" — Barbara Brown Taylor
"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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35 Quotes by Barbara Brown Taylor
Barbara Brown Taylor has 35 quotes on this site.
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The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what…
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Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what…
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No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the…
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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and…
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What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from…
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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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What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one…
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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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If churches saw their mission in the same way, there is no telling what might happen. What if people were…
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I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had…
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
— Richard Bach
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and…
— Lance Armstrong
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
— Darren Aronofsky
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
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