Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
I found myself in a maze where I'd taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn't doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
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With 'Game of Thrones,' there are no real limitations.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.
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It was defiance born of a lack of any hope.
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A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.
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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
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Before the coming of Jesus Christ, men fled away from God and, being attached to the earth, refused to unite themselves to their Creator. But the loving God has drawn them to Himself by the bonds of love, as He promised by the prophet Osee [Hosea]: "I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bonds of love" (11:4). These bonds are the benefits, the lights, the calls to His love, the promises of Paradise which He makes to us, but above all, the gift which He has bestowed upon us of Jesus Christ in the Sacrifice of the Cross and in the Sacrament of the Altar...
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I found myself in a maze where I'd taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn't doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.
