"The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do."

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Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.6, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

Barbara Brown Taylor

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Church Quotes

“In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income.”
“If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.”

Source : "Edie: Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.
“Nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn't work perfectly. Because of sin in the world, nothing works perfectly. But in spite of that we can find comfort. We can find strength.”
“Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.”

Source : British Medical Journal 2: 697 (1947)
“Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.”

Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
“Creating the next level of results requires the next level of thinking.”

Source : Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.13, Penguin
“I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.”
“Education doesnâ€™t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We donâ€™t become happy just because weâ€™re free â€“ if we are. Or because weâ€™ve been educated â€“ if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance â€“ the confidence â€“ to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.”

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