Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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 to teach them Himself ... "Do this" He said - not believe this but do this - "in remembrance of me.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.
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I will not hear a word against him. I love my Bieber!
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What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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'Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed' was the ninth Beatitude which a man of wit (who, like a man of wit, was a long time in gaol) added to the eighth.
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Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.
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You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
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Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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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 to teach them Himself ... "Do this" He said - not believe this but do this - "in remembrance of me.
