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To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where. — Barbara Brown Taylor

To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings. - Wendell Berry — Barbara Brown Taylor

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Humanity can be pretty stinky. — Barbara Brown Taylor

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat. — Barbara Brown Taylor

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human. — Barbara Brown Taylor

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 people. — Barbara Brown Taylor

I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left. — Barbara Brown Taylor

But I know that I have an easier time loving humankind than I do loving particular human beings. — Barbara Brown Taylor

New life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark. — Barbara Brown Taylor

This is good, and all good things cast shadows. — Barbara Brown Taylor

According to the Talmud, every blade of grass has its own angel bending over it, whispering, Grow, grow. — Barbara Brown Taylor

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own. — Barbara Brown Taylor

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin. — Barbara Brown Taylor

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Human beings have a hard time regarding anything beautiful without wanting to devour it. — Barbara Brown Taylor

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship. — Barbara Brown Taylor

To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful. — Barbara Brown Taylor

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Busy? The word loses all meaning under the canopy of this sky. — Barbara Brown Taylor

I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there. — Barbara Brown Taylor

I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another. — Barbara Brown Taylor

During the day it is hard to remember that all the stars in the sky are out there all the time, even when I am too blinded by the sum to see them — Barbara Brown Taylor

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest. — Barbara Brown Taylor

There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there. — Barbara Brown Taylor

The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing. — Barbara Brown Taylor

I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian." — Barbara Brown Taylor

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. — Barbara Brown Taylor

I've got a hold of something that won't move. It's a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day. — Barbara Brown Taylor

To be a priest,' writes Barbara Brown Taylor, 'is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are. — Rachel Held Evans

Our comfort or discomfort with the outer dark is a good barometer of how we feel about the inner kind. — Barbara Brown Taylor

I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something
a very big something
because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for. — Barbara Brown Taylor

For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae. — Barbara Brown Taylor

God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it. — Barbara Brown Taylor

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. — Barbara Brown Taylor

It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them. — Barbara Brown Taylor

If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble. — Barbara Brown Taylor

E. B. White once wrote, I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day. — Barbara Brown Taylor

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

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

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars. — Barbara Brown Taylor

The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear. — Barbara Brown Taylor

I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse. — Barbara Brown Taylor