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From Quotes by Barbara Brown Taylor
- The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is…
- What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human…
- 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.…
- I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are…
- Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless…
- Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix.…
- The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you…
- We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and…
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