Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.
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In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point: This can be done.
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'Lieutenant Crosshaw says you are a special case!' bellowed Helve. 'I do not like special cases! Special cases do not make good soldiers! Special cases do not help other recruits become good soldiers! Therefore, you will not be a special case! You understand me!' 'I think so-' 'Shut up! That was not a question!'
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
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Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.
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For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
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This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.
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The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
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My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.
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I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
