Closeness Quote by Barbara Brown Taylor

“You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.”

Barbara Brown Taylor

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