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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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 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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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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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
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It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It's always beyond what you've ever done.
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I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
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Perhaps the most significant thing George Lucas did in creating 'Star Wars' was to fictionalize the Tao - to spark a universe where we can talk about the Force in objective terms and show it in direct action.
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Eight years ago we weren't seen as a core supplier to retailers of MP3 players, TVs and cell phones. Now we are, and we need to broaden that.
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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.