Time Quote by Barbara Brown Taylor

““but I know that I have an easier time loving humankind than I do loving particular human beings.””

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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

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I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I've relaxed enormously since then. I'm the one who gets…

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Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn…

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I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of…

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With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when He was gone. Instead, He gave them concrete things to do - specific ways of being together in their bodies - that would go on teaching them what they needed to know when He was no longer around…

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There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here…

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The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from…

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“I cannot say for sure when my reliable ideas about God began to slip away, but the big chest I used to keep them in is smaller than a shoebox now. Most of the time, I feel so ashamed about this that I do not own up to it unless someone else mentions it first. Then we find a quiet…

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I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

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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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The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It…

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“The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you,' he said, 'by the grace of God.' (Walter…

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