"The effort to untangle the human words from……" — Barbara Brown Taylor
"The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart."
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35 Quotes by Barbara Brown Taylor
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